Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria

by Songju Ma Daemicke and Amparo Ortiz

Book Overview

2024 Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee
2023 Finalist AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books

Tu Youyou's malaria treatment saved millions of lives, and she became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807581119
• ISBN13: 9780807581117
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3