Title Grasping mysteries : girls who loved math / Jeannine Atkins.

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First edition.

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New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020]

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2032025~S1

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Description	305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note	Ages 10 Up. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
	Grades 4-6. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
	960L Lexile
Contents	Looking up: Caroline Herschel -- Making change with charts I: Florence Nightingale -- Exploring currents: Hertha Marks Ayrton -- Mapping what's hidden: Marie Tharp -- Creating paths through space: Katherine Johnson -- Making change with charts II: Edna Lee Paisano -- Looking beyond: Vera Rubin.
Audience	Ages 10 Up. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
	Grades 4-6. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Summary	A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
Subject	Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Ayrton, Hertha, 1854-1923 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tharp, Marie -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Johnson, Katherine G. -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Paisano, Edna L. -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Novels in verse -- Juvenile fiction.
	Mathematicians -- Juvenile fiction.
	Scientists -- Juvenile fiction.
	Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN	9781534460683 (hardcover)
	9781534460690 (paperback)

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