This Sterling Biographies story of Marie Curie is a comprehensive look into the life of the "mother of modern physics". The text is engaging though difficult at times, with many pictures to reinforce historical legitimacy. Many chapter titles and paragraph headings are used to make skimming and navigating the biography easy, and a vocabulary glossary is provided at the end. My favorite aspects of this biography are the aside notes about different people in the Curies' lives, social happenings of the time, and more in-depth information about the science involved. This being the first biography I have read about Marie Curie, I have nothing to compare it to in terms of information that might have been omitted. I read a review from School Library Journal that indicated that some information had been left out, though it didn't express what.

Overall, I think this is a great biography series for middle school students. ( )