Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

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.

Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 11/29/2016
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780062662378
Audience: 08 - 12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.2
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 187011 / Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition


Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2017 pg. 206 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Shetterly, Margot Lee: -

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.