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Title Determined dreamer : the story of Marie Curie / written by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Jen Hill.
Author Hopkinson, Deborah, author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
©2024
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Location Call No. Status
 Chickasaw  J B CURIE    Check Shelves
 Fairview Shores  J B CURIE    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J B CURIE    Check Shelves
 Winter Garden  J B CURIE    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes life of Marie Curie timeline.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)-- she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist--and was determined to make that dream come true."-- Provided by publisher.
Audience 4-8 years.
Preschool-3.
Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Juvenile literature.
Women chemists -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Chemists -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women physicists -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Physicists -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Chemists -- Poland.
Physicists -- Poland.
Nobel Prize winners.
Women -- Biography.
Genre Picture books.
Biographies.
Added Author Hill, Jen, 1975- illustrator.
Added Title Story of Marie Curie
ISBN 9780062373328 (hardcover) : $19.99
0062373323 (hardcover)