Format:
Large Print, Book
Author:
Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
Title:
Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly.
Edition:
Young readers' edition.
Publisher, Date:
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, 2018.
Description:
279 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm
large print
Summary:
The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.
Target Audience Note:
"Recommended for middle readers"--Title page verso.
Subjects:
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Space race -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography.
Women -- Biography.
Genre:
Large print books.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (235-248) and index.
Contents:
Setting the scene -- A door opens -- Mobilization -- A new beginning -- The double V -- The "colored" computers -- War birds -- The duration -- Breaking barriers -- No limits -- The area rule -- An exceptional mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Writing the textbook on space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- One small step -- Timeline -- Glossary.
ISBN:
9781432850258 (paperback)
1432850253 (paperback)
Other Number:
1029074354
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3670549
Call Number:
QA27.5 .L44 2018
Course Reserves:
0
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1