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Author Albee, Sarah, author.

Title Poison : deadly deeds, perilous professions, and murderous medicines / Sarah Albee.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Teen  Y615.9 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J 615.9 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  615.9 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J615.9 ALB    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 615.9 ALB    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Children  J Fun Facts 615.9 ALB    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department  J 615.9 ALBEE    DUE 05-09-24
Edition First edition.
Description x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Audience Ages 8-12.
Grades 4-6.
Summary "A humorous and informative book that traces the role poisons have played in human history from antiquity to the present. Part history, part chemistry, part whodunit"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index.
Contents No bane, no gain: poisons in the ancient world -- That's classic: poison in Greece and Rome -- Poisons, potions, and witches' brews: the Middle Ages -- The wretched Renaissance -- Crime and corruption: the sinister seventeenth century -- Murder and medicine in the Age of Reason -- Bad heir days: poisons in the nineteenth century -- Twentieth-century tox -- New and noxious: poisons in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Subject Poisons -- Juvenile literature.
Toxicology -- Juvenile literature.
Poisoning -- Juvenile literature.
Poisons -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Hazardous substances -- Juvenile literature.
Poisons.
Toxicology.
Poisoning.
Poisons -- History.
Hazardous substances.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- History.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Humor.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature.
Hazardous substances. (OCoLC)fst00952197
Poisons -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Poisoning. (OCoLC)fst01068142
Toxicology -- Juvenile literature.
Poisons. (OCoLC)fst01068184
Hazardous substances -- Juvenile literature.
Toxicology. (OCoLC)fst01153364
Genre/Form Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Literature.
ISBN 9781101932230 (pb)
1101932236 (pb)
9781101932247 (glb)
1101932244 (glb)
9781537987637 (FollettBound hardcover)
1537987631 (FollettBound hardcover)
9781101932254 (epub)
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