Pub Date: November 29, 2016
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016952958
Lexile Code: 1120
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 7.50" L x 5.10" W ( 0.50 lbs) 240 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women | African American & Black | General | Science & Nature | Astronomy | Mathematics | Games & Activities | Computers | Activity Books | History of Science | Technology | Girls & Women | History
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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"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