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Hidden Figures

Young Readers' Edition

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Synopsis

From World War II through NASA's golden age, four African-American women confidently and courageously stepped into the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now known as NASA). Their Job? To provide the mathematical calculations that would help increase airplane production during wartime and eventually send the United States into space for the very first time. Hidden Figures follows the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who participated in some of the United States' greatest aeronautic successes. These women lived through and preserved against the backdrop of some of the biggest movements ever to shape our nation's history; the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, and the fight for gender equality. With photographs and rich historical detail, Margot Lee Shetterly brings to life the struggles these four women, and others, overcome to forever change the face of air and space travel. Book jacket.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2016
ISBN-13 9780062662378
ISBN-10 0062662376
Class Copyright
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 64 MB
Number of Pages 240
Length of Recording 4
Language ENG
Shelf No. KZ869
Grade Range 3-7
Ages 8-12
Lexile 1120L
Curriculums Bookworms, Benchmark Advance, HMH Into Literature Trademarks