Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

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4.7
34 reviews
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240
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About this ebook

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller!

This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. 

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.


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4.7
34 reviews
Davina Perry
March 17, 2017
It's one of the best books I've ever read. It's so inspiring to read and it tells the story of African American women and how helped us in the Space Race and their story was untold for 50 years now. Now,in a movie and books this story is inspiring little African American girls everywhere that they can be something in math and science. I would totally recommend this book because it's so amazing to read and see the story of these amazing African American women who helped us out in the Space Race and even though we lost the Space Race,these women will be known.
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Patricia Wright
April 23, 2017
Truly Amazing!
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Dinkins
January 16, 2017
Instinctively subdued. Powerful writing. Not over the top dramatic.
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About the author

Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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