Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition) [SCM]
by Margot Lee Shetterly Author
A pared down version of the original Hidden Figures book, which tells the true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space in the midst of shifting laws on segregation. This version contains the author's original words, but also explains some of the terms that might be unfamiliar to younger readers. It is also less "dense" in its sentence structure.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780062662378
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 23
- Pages
- 231
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 9th
- Geographical Setting
- Virginia
- Historical Setting
- 1943 - 1969
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Copyright
- 2016
Chapters
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 A Door Opens
- 3 Mobilization
- 4 A New Beginning
- 5 The Double V
- 6 The "Colored" Computers
- 7 War Birds
- 8 The Duration
- 9 Breaking Barriers
- 10 No Limits
- 11 The Area Rule
- 12 An Exceptional Mind
- 13 Turbulence
- 14 Progress
- 15 Young, Gifted, and Black
- 16 What a Difference a Day Makes
- 17 Writing the Textbook on Space
- 18 With All Deliberate Speed
- 19 Model Behavior
- 20 Degrees of Freedom
- 21 Out of the Past, the Future
- 22 America Is for Everybody
- 23 One Small Step
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