Marie Curie

Write Your Own History™: Marie Curie

An Interactive Adventure for Young Readers (Ages 7-15)

You are Marie Curie, a brilliant young girl growing up in Warsaw with a mind that refuses to stop asking questions.

Poland is under Russian rule. Your education is restricted. Opportunities for girls are limited. But everywhere you look, there is something waiting to be understood.

Will you follow the rules? Will you keep experimenting when others tell you to stop? What happens when curiosity leads somewhere no experiment ever should?

Test strange forces. Solve scientific puzzles. Follow an owl into the unknown. Face a creeping slime, climb above the clouds, sneak past a giant, and decide whether a goose laying golden eggs is worth the risk.

Or follow history and carry that same relentless curiosity from secret learning in Warsaw to the laboratories of Paris, where your experiments will reveal forces hidden inside matter itself. Marie's historical journey ultimately leads to Pierre Curie, the discovery of polonium and radium, two Nobel Prizes, and mobile X-ray units used to help wounded soldiers during World War I.

Rewrite history as you make decisions for

Marie Curie!

In Write Your Own History™, you make the decisions.

Some paths follow Marie's true journey from a determined student in Russian-controlled Poland to one of the most groundbreaking scientists in history.

Others imagine what might have been, where experiments behave in impossible ways, ordinary discoveries become extraordinary adventures, and careful observation may be the only thing standing between you and disaster.

Each choice reveals a different side of Marie and a different answer to the question that drives every scientist:

What happens if you try?

Why Readers Love This Book:

• Historically grounded True Path following Marie from Warsaw and clandestine education to Paris, Pierre Curie, radioactivity, polonium, radium, and her groundbreaking scientific career

• Multiple branching endings filled with experiments, mysterious forces, unexpected discoveries, giant-sized dangers, and adventures beyond the laboratory

• Second-person format puts the reader inside Marie's experiments, where their observations and choices determine what happens next

• Designed for ages 7-15, with crossover appeal for teachers, parents, young scientists, and curious minds

• Educational bonus: Introduces experimentation, observation, radioactivity, X-rays, scientific perseverance, and the idea that discovery can bring both incredible possibilities and unexpected risks

Ask the question.

Test the impossible.

Write Your Own History™.

Also available in the WYOH series: Alexander the Great • Cleopatra • Harriet Tubman • Leonardo da Vinci • Joan of Arc