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Title
Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math First edition.
Author
Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Pub date:
[2020]
Pages:
305 pages :
ISBN:
9781534460683
9781534460683
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Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math
First edition.
Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-
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Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math
First edition.
Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-
Personal Author:
Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-
Title:
Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math / Jeannine Atkins ; [illustrations by Victoria Assanelli].
Edition:
First edition.
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.
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CENTRAL NORTHWEST EAST
Personal subject:
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Ayrton, Hertha, 1854-1923--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Tharp, Marie--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Johnson, Katherine G.--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Paisano, Edna L.--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016--Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Personal subject:
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848.
Personal subject:
Johnson, Katherine G.
Personal subject:
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Personal subject:
Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016.
Personal subject:
Tharp, Marie.
Subject term:
Novels in verse.
Subject term:
Mathematicians--Juvenile fiction.
Subject term:
Scientists--Juvenile fiction.
Subject term:
Sex role--Juvenile fiction.
Subject term:
Childhood and youth of a person
Genre index term:
Novels in verse.
Genre index term:
Historical fiction.
Genre index term:
Biographical fiction.
Genre index term:
Fiction.
Genre index term:
Juvenile works.
Genre index term:
Historical fiction.
Genre index term:
Biographical fiction.
Genre index term:
Novels in verse.
Genre index term:
Historical fiction.
Genre index term:
Biographical fiction.
Genre index term:
Romans en vers.
Added Entry-Personal Name:
Assanelli, Victoria, 1984-
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