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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court. But do you know what she was like as a child? Strong role models and encouragement to be herself led Ruth to speak her mind and to stand up for equality. This playful story of her childhood will help young readers connect with a historic figure and will inspire them to want to achieve greatness.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the life of Sonia Sotomayor, who was sworn in as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice of the United States in 2009.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the boundary-breaking mathematician, Katherine Johnson, reveals how her love of mathematics started at a young age led her to a job at NASA where she calculated the course of moon landings and helped save the Apollo 13 mission.
