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K-Gr 3—A succinct but informative book about Tu Youyou, the Chinese medical researcher who won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of the treatment for drug-resistant malaria using extracts from sweet wormwood. Without shying away from the severity of the situation, Pattison introduces information about the parasite. She then jumps into the story of Youyou who, along with a team of researchers in the 1960s, was tasked with discovering a cure. (In the back matter, readers learn that this was at the behest of the government of No...Log In or Sign Up to Read More