The Weirdo Theodore Taylor, 1991

Chip Clewt lives with his artist father in the secluded Powhatan Swamp, he has aroused the tempers of local hunters as he assists a graduate student observing and tagging bears in the swamp in order to protect them from extinction.

Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium Carla Killough McClafferty, 2006

Marie Curie, who came from a poor Polish family, worked hard to afford studying in Paris.