| Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm |
| Note(S) |
Maps on endpapers. |
| Summary |
"From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job in a laboratory at Cambridge University, New York. But then she faced another barrior: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was irrefutable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office."-- Publisher's marketing. |
| Audience |
Age Range: 4-8 years Amazon.com. |
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Grade Level: Preschool - 3 Amazon.com |
| Reading Level |
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 0.5 511976. |
| Note |
A biography of Marie Tharp, a woman scientist, and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor. |
| Subject |
Tharp, Marie -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject(S) |
Cartographers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction.
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Women cartographers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction.
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Geomorphologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction.
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Submarine topography -- Juvenile fiction.
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Women -- Biography.
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Picture books.
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Biographies.
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Fiction.
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| Added Name(S) |
Hickey, Katie, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780735265080 (hardcover) |
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0735265089 (hardcover) |
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