Hidden Figures, Young Readers' Edition: The Untold True Story of Four African American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space
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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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| ISBN |
9780062662378 |
| Barcode |
9780062662378 |
| Published |
29 November 2016 by HarperCollins |
| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback |
| Alternate Format(s) |
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| Author(s) |
By Shetterly, Margot Lee |
| Availability |
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Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
Children |
| Reading Age |
Children |
| Library of Congress |
United States, Women, African American women, African Americans, Space race |
| NBS Text |
Children's General Non-Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile |
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| Dewey Code |
B |
| Catalogue Code |
731175 |
Description of this Book
Now in a special new edition perfect for young readers, this is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Soon to be a major motion picture.Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as human computers used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African-American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
The perfect impetus for discussion on a host of important historical themes germane to the 1950s, such as gender roles, racial prejudice and segregation, and scientific exploration... Middle-schoolers will find their story, here in a young readers' edition of Shetterly's 2016 adult book, engaging and inspirational. --Booklist |
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Author's Bio
Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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