Make Up Posts #tbt and Fact Friday!

Oops! Boy did I goof this week!. This morning, I checked my blog to see that my Saturday, "What's New" posted went up and saw, not only that it did not post, but I didn't post a #tbt or a Fact Friday. I posted them to my school's learning platform and the public library FB page, but not my blog! Then "What's New?" post was accidentally scheduled for August 27! Man, oh man! My brain is turning to mush! Time to play catch up.

#tbt:

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The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen. 352 p. The Ascendance Trilogy #1. Scholastic Press/ Scholastic Inc., April, 20212. 9780545284134. (Own.)

 #tbt features The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen. This first-person narrative is book one of what was the Ascendance Trilogy, now series. Sage is a fifteen-year-old orphan who lives in Miss Turdbeldy's Orphanage for Disadvantaged Boys in the kingdom of Carthya. He's defiant as well as a thief and Miss Turdbeldy is more than happy to have him taken off her hands when a nobleman named Bevin Connor comes to collect four boys. Very quickly, the boys all learn that they are enrolled in a crash course in how to impersonate a prince and that only one of them, the false prince, will come out alive. If you love adventure narrated with sass and humor, you will love this series. 

It was published in the spring of 2012. The sequels, The Runaway King and The Shadow Throne were published in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Fact Friday: 

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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss. 264 p. Abrams Books for Young Readers/ Abrams Books, April, 2022. 9781419758539. (Review of finished copy borrowed from public library.)

Fact Friday features The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss. Life was hard for women who were interested in the sciences in the early twentieth century. They had to work twice as hard as their male counterparts, were given terrible working conditions and very little, if any pay. Often, male colleagues stole or took credit for the discoveries of female scientists. Such was the case with Lise Meitner. She was a physicist who worked very closely with a chemist named Otto Hahn. He did credit her in their early work, though his name was always first. However, when Hitler came to power and Jews were being stripped of everything, Hahn did little to protect Meitner and she resisted other colleagues pleas to leave Germany. Not only that, but absolutely failed to credit Meitner when HE won the Nobel Prize for HER work on splitting atoms. Without her calculations, Hahn had no idea what he was looking at.

This biography is absorbing. Chapters are short and each begins with an engaging, illustrated introduction. Over fifty pages of back matter contains archival photos, an afterword, an author's note, a timeline of Meitner's achievements, a glossary, thumbnail biographies of the other scientists that were mentioned in the text, chapter notes, sources, and an index.

The Woman Who Split the Atom would appeal to readers who enjoy biographies, science, and women's history.