"Informative, pithy, wry, very readable." -- Booklist Learn about seven groundbreaking women in Math and science in this gorgeously written biographical novel-in-verse, a companion to Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science .
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She lives in western Massachusetts.
Jeannine teaches writing for children and young adults at Simmons University.
Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters .
About author(s): Jeannine Atkins is the author of several books for young readers about courageous women, including Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science , Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math , Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis , and Borrowed Names: Poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.
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Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates seven remarkable women who used Math as their key to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovative work that changed the world.
And Vera Rubin studied more than two hundred galaxies and found the first strong evidence for dark matter.
Edna Lee Paisano , a citizen of the Nez Perce Nation, was the first Native American to work full time for the Census Bureau, overseeing a large increase in American Indian and Alaskan Native representation.
A mathematical prodigy, Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories and launch windows for many NASA projects including the Apollo 11 mission.
Marie Tharp helped create the first map of the entire ocean floor, which helped scientists understand our subaquatic world and suggested how the continents shifted.
The first female electrical engineer, Hertha Marks Ayrton registered twenty-six patents for her inventions.
Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing nurse whose work reformed hospitals and one of the founders of the field of medical statistics.
After a childhood spent looking up at the stars, Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and to earn a salary for scientific research. "Informative, pithy, wry, very readable." -- Booklist Learn about seven groundbreaking women in Math and science in this gorgeously written biographical novel-in-verse, a companion to Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science
