Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math / Jeannine Atkins ; [illustrations by Victoria Assanelli].

Title:

ISBN:

9781534460683

9781534460690

Personal Author:

Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

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

Physical Description:

305 pages : illustrations ; 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.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 6.2 5 515513

Personal Subject:

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Ayrton, Hertha, 1854-1923-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Tharp, Marie-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Johnson, Katherine G.-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Paisano, Edna L.-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016-Childhood and youth-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Mathematicians -- Fiction