Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter

This fun story features Miss Pickerell as she heads off to Washington with her twin nephews to the city to visit the state fair. On her way, she meets a uranium prospector and takes over his hunt for Uranium. It's a fun way to learn science for children. The writer has infused the work with information on atomic energy, radioactive decay, cosmic ray background radiation, radio-carbon dating, and much more.