Nominee: 2017 Amelia Bloomer List, Early Readers Nonfiction Before Eugenie Clark\'s groundbreaking research, most people thought sharks were vicious, blood-thirsty killers.
After she became a scientistan unexpected career path for a woman in the 1940sshe began taking research dives and training sharks, earning her the nickname The Shark Lady..
Instead of frightening and ferocious eating machines, she saw sleek, graceful fish gliding through the water.
From the first time she saw a shark in an aquarium, Japanese-American Eugenie was enthralled.
Nominee: 2017 Amelia Bloomer List, Early Readers Nonfiction Before Eugenie Clark\'s groundbreaking research, most people thought sharks were vicious, blood-thirsty killers