The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Young Reader's Edition by Rebecca Skloot, Gregory Mone

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Young Reader's Edition

Rebecca Skloot, Gregory Mone

256 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction middle grade emotional informative fast-paced
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A middle-grade adaptation of same title with thread on writer's own difficulties. Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cervical cancer cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 treatment, have been vital in fighting polio, canc...

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