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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Young Reader's Edition
by
Gregory Mone (Goodreads Author) ,
Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
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, cancer, and viruses. Topics are race, bioethics, research, rights, family, and whether we control our cells.
ebook, 256 pages
Published
December 25th 2013
by Knopf Books for Young Readers
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The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks was a fantastic book to read. The book itself taught you so many things about science and how unfairly some people can be treated. It gave me so many different emotions, with how these people just used this discovery and never even told the family about it. This book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I couldn't even put it down! This book tells the story of how one woman's cells helped scientists find a new discovery and how the family faced hard
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As always, truth is stranger than fiction. An unknown poor black woman dies a painful death of cervical cancer in the 50's and her cells go on to flourish around the world and figure in some of the most important medical research ever.
The author weaves 3 strands together: the scientific, the personal lives of Ms. Lacks and her family, and what happened to the author in the writing of this book. The third strand was just as fascinating as the other two in showing the challenges of writing a book. ...more
The author weaves 3 strands together: the scientific, the personal lives of Ms. Lacks and her family, and what happened to the author in the writing of this book. The third strand was just as fascinating as the other two in showing the challenges of writing a book. ...more
I couldn't put down this book. It was so easy to read and fascinating - it is at once a science book, biography, social history and a social commentary. It tells the story of a woman named Henrietta Lacks from whom HeLa cells were 'developed' and charts the proliferation of these cells against the backdrop of her family story before and after her death. Skloot's writing is accessible and engaging on many levels.
Mar 27, 2015
Beth Meyers
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Fantastic book. The author's research was meticulous and her sensitivity to the Lacks family was amazing. Everyone should read this book and really start the conversation about tissue research and everyone's rights and responsibilities regarding it.
Aug 07, 2016
Bev Kaplan
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Great story about how Henrietta Laks's genes was used illegally.
Jun 03, 2015
Deborah Balsham
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