Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee

Brand: HarperCollins

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: Paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 29-11-2016

Part Number: 45464960

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780062662378

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English