Grasping Mysteries : : Girls who Loved Math
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Call Number: Y 920.72 At, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Scientists & Inventors / Miscellaneous
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Looking up: Caroline Herschel -- Making change with charts I: Florence Nightingale -- Exploring currents: Hertha Marks Ayrton -- Mapping what's hidden: Marie Tharp -- Creating paths through space: Katherine Johnson -- Making change with charts II: Edna Lee Paisano -- Looking beyond: Vera Rubin.
A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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PUBLISHED
New York City : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781534460683
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Assanelli, Victoria, 1984-
SUBJECTS
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, -- 1750-1848 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Ayrton, Hertha, -- 1854-1923 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Tharp, Marie -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Johnson, Katherine G. -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Paisano, Edna L. -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Rubin, Vera C., -- 1928-2016 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Mathematicians -- Fiction.
Scientists -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.