Carla Killough McClafferty

AUTHOR OF BIOGRAPHY-PLUS NONFICTION BOOKS

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International Reading Association, Children's Book Award Winners

Orbis Pictus Honor Books, 2007

American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults

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Books for young readers

In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
This book reveals a little known story of an American Holocaust rescuer who helped refugees out of France in 1940-41.

Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
This biography of Marie Curie reveals the woman as well as the scientist. It also describes what the world at large did with her discoery, radium.

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.

Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium

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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.