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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021-13-07

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math (Reprint)

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math (Reprint)

Girls Who Love Science

Jeannine Atkins, Author

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9781534460690

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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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Through lyrical verse, readers encounter pioneering women who transformed curiosity into groundbreaking discoveries. Their stories illuminate how passion and perseverance can transcend barriers, inspiring a new generation to explore, question, and lead with courage.

Keywords and Themes: Courage • Determination • Girls & Women • Growth • Hope • Ingenuity • Inspiration • Integrity • Juvenile Fiction • Mathematics • Perseverance • Resilience • Responsibility • Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)

Readability • 6.5

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 320

Subjects • Childhood and youth • Nightingale • Florence • Ayrton • Hertha • Tharp • Marie • Johnson • Katherine G • Paisano • Edna L • Rubin • Vera C. • Women mathematicians • Women scientists • Novels in verse • Herschel • Caroline Lucretia

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Mathematics • Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) • Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women

"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.

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. Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing nurse whose work reformed hospitals and one of the founders of the field of medical statistics. The first female electrical engineer, Hertha Marks Ayrton registered twenty-six patents for her inventions.

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. A mathematical prodigy, Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories and launch windows for many NASA projects including the Apollo 11 mission. 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. And Vera Rubin studied more than two hundred galaxies and found the first strong evidence for dark matter.

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.

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