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Published
2022
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Subgenre
Historical
ISBN
9781665902502
Section
Middle Grade

Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science

Jeannine Atkins

Lise Meitner fights her way into physics at a time when women were barred from science, then must flee Nazi Germany as her work on nuclear fission changes the course of World War II.

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Themes

Real lives & historyScience & techWar & conflictImmigration & refugees

Mood

Feels inspiring, informative, tense.

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