Series:

Science Stories

3 total works

Cover of Marie Curie's Search for Radium

Marie Curie's scientific research and discovery of radium in 1902 helped open the door to our modern nuclear age. This handsomely illustrated, documentary-style volume is filled with facts but conveys the drama of a good story. An exciting tale of scientific exploration for young readers.

Cover of Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes

In 1856, when Louis Pasteur first began studying microbes in rotten sugarbeet juice, he put into motion a chain of events that saved France's wine industry, and revolutionized medicine and biology.

Cover of Benjamin Franklin's Adventures with Electricity
These handsomely illustrated volumes present stories of scientific exploration. Each is documentary in style and filled with facts, but the books also convey the drama of a good story. Benjamin Franklin's early experiments with electricity opened the way for the harnessing of electrical energy. He began by exploring static electricity, and progressed in 1752 to his famous kite experiment in a thunderstorm.