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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Traci Sorell - Millbrook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work. Cherokee author Traci Sorell and Mtis illustrator Natasha Donovan... |
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Listening to the Stars: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovers Pulsars
Jodie Parachini - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that contributed to her discovery of pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked... |
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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney
Alice B. McGinty - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Library Binding
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An empowering, inspiring--and accessible!--nonfiction picture book about the eleven-year-old girl who actually named the newly discovered Pluto in 1930.When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her... |
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Annie Jump Cannon, Astronomer
Carole Gerber - Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This biography illustrates the accomplishments of a woman who developed a system of classifying stars and who-to this day-holds the record for identifying more stars than anyone else in the world. In 1925, Annie Jump Cannon became the first woman to be honored by Oxford University with... |
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She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer
Kathryn Lasky - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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From Newbery Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky comes a nonfiction picture book about the stars! Lasky tells the inspiring true story of astronomer Williamina Fleming, who helped lay the foundations for modern astronomy and overcame impossible odds as an immigrant and a woman. For stargazers... |
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Margaret and the Moon
Dean Robbins - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back) . She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon!... |
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Mae Among the Stars
RODA AHMED - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful picture book for sharing, inspired by the life of the first African American woman to travel in space, Mae Jemison.A great classroom and bedtime read-aloud, Mae Among the Stars is the perfect book for young readers who have big dreams and even bigger hearts!When Little Mae was a child,... |
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
Helaine Becker - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 moon landing. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure that Apollo... |
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What Miss Mitchell Saw
Hayley Barrett - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the amazing true story of Maria Mitchell, America's first professional female astronomer.Every evening, from the time she was a child, Maria Mitchell stood on her rooftop with her telescope and swept the sky. And then one night she saw something unusual - a comet no one had ever... |
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Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa (A Big Words Book, 12)
Doreen Rappaport - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the groundbreaking life of astronaut and Johnson Space Center director Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in space, in this latest book in the award-winning Big Words biography series.. Young Ellen loved to learn. Encouraged by her mother, she graduated at the top of her high school... |
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and illustrator Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!Dorothy Vaughan, Mary... |
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The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean
Dean Robbins - Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the lunar surface and the only artist to paint its beauty firsthand! Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with astronaut and artist Alan Bean!As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young... |
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Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
Stephanie Roth Sisson - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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For every child who has ever looked up at the stars and asked, "What are they?" comes the story of a curious boy who never stopped wondering: Carl Sagan.When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World's Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day on he never... |
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