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Title Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women / Catherine Thimmesh ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
Pub Info Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2018]
Description 106 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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 LANCASTER Juvenile Nonfiction  J 609.22 THI     AVAILABLE
 LITITZ Juvenile Nonfiction  J 609.22 THI     AVAILABLE
 MANHEIM Juvenile Nonfiction  J 609.22 THI     AVAILABLE
 MANHEIM TWP Juvenile Nonfiction  J 609.22 THI     AVAILABLE
 MOUNTVILLE Juvenile Nonfiction  J 609.22 THI     AVAILABLE
Edition New edition.
Contents In the beginning -- Chocolate chip cookie: Ruth Wakefield -- LuminAID: Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta -- Windshield wipers: Mary Anderson -- Turning plastic into fuel: Azza Abdelhamid Faiad -- Kevlar: Stephanie Kwolek -- Hot seat: Alissa Chavez -- Computer compiler, Grace Murray Hopper -- ReThink, Trisha Prabhu -- Paper bag folding machine, Margaret E. Knight -- Laserphaco probe, Dr. Patricia Bath -- Space bumper, Jeanne Lee Crews -- Combating drought with orange peels: Kiara Nirghin -- Scotchgard: Patsy O. Sherman -- Snugli: Ann Moore -- Roominate: Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen -- Your turn.
Audience 960L Lexile
Note Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 2 43785.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99) and index.
Note Selected timeline on endpapers.
Summary Expanded and revised, this new edition of the best-selling book celebrates the ingenious inventions of women throughout time. As inspiring as they are fascinating, these stories empower readers to imagine, to question, to experiment, and then to go forth ... and invent.
Subject Women inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Inventions -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- Juvenile literature.
Inventions -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography.
Inventions.
Inventors.
Women.
Women inventors.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.