Carla Killough McClafferty


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Selected Works

Books for young readers
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
Chosen as a Junior Library Guild Selection, this biography of Marie Curie brings understanding to her life, her work and her world.
The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-ray
With an engaging text and numerous historical photographs, this book tells about the X-ray from its discovery to its uses today in art, archeology, science, industry and more.
Inspirational
Forgiving God: A Woman's Struggle to Understand When God Answers No
This beautifully told story of triumph over tragedy reveals a Mother's spiritual and emotional journey back to God after losing her son to accidental injuries.


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Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium


Junior Library Guild Selection
Spring 2006
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Marie Curie's story has fascinated and inspired young readers for decades. In this biography, her life and work are given a fresh telling. Often using Marie Curie's own words, this book illuminates a life filled with work, generosity, and tragedy. It also explores the larger picture of the effects of radium in world culture--its exploitation and consquenses of its misuse. It is illustrated with many historical photographs.



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