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Title Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
Author Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
Publisher New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Edition First Edition.
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 HF-Juv. Non fiction  HF J Book Bundle- Black History Month  30632003768797 03-22-24  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes glossary and timeline.
NOTE Accelerated Reader LG 5.8 0.5 193339
Summary Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
Audience Ages 4-8.
980L Lexile
Awards Coretta Scott King Illustrator, Honor, 2019.
Subject Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature.
Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature.
Darden, Christine M. -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Space race -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Picture books for children.
Add'l Names Conkling, Winifred, author.
Freeman, Laura, illustrator.
Adaptation of (expression): Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden figures.
Other title True story of four black women and the space race
True story of 4 black women and the space race
ISBN 9780062742469
9781725422421
0062742469
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