The Radium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark (Young Readers' Edition)
Author: Moore, Kate
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.8
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
66198
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
408
Points per Page
0.026961
Description
Young women spend their days painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky until they start suffering from a mysterious illness. The corporations try to cover up a shocking secret.