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Author Atkins, Jeannine, 1953- author.

Title Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math / Jeannine Atkins.

Publisher New York City : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020]

ISBN 9781534460683 (hardcover)
1534460683 (hardcover)



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Edition First edition.
Description 305 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Looking up: Caroline Herschel -- Making change with charts I: Florence Nightingale -- Exploring currents: Hertha Marks Ayrton -- Mapping what's hidden: Marie Tharp -- Creating paths through space: Katherine Johnson -- Making change with charts II: Edna Lee Paisano -- Looking beyond: Vera Rubin.
Summary 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.
Audience Ages 10 Up Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Grades 4-6 Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
960L Lexile
Reading Level Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.2 5 515513.
Subject Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Ayrton, Hertha, 1854-1923 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Tharp, Marie -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Johnson, Katherine G. -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Paisano, Edna L. -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
Subject(S) Novels in verse.
Mathematicians -- Juvenile fiction.
Scientists -- Juvenile fiction.
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
Added Title Girls who loved math
ISBN 9781534460683 (hardcover)
1534460683 (hardcover)