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62) Amelia Earhart
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Presents an overview of the life and accomplishments of Amelia Earhart, describing how she broke flight records and proved that women can do anything men can do.
65) Kalpana Chawla
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Born and raised in India, Kalpana Chawla was discouraged from pursuing a career in aeronautical engineering because there were limited career options for women in that field. But she persisted, getting her degree and then moving to the US to obtain other, more advanced education before joining NASA and becoming the first Indian-born woman to go to space. Though she was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, she continues to inspire girls...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles the legendary country music artist, reading advocate, and philanthropist who has sent over one hundred fifty million free books to children through her Imagination Library, and describes the hardships she overcame.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself.--
73) Gloria Estefan
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
103 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles six women scientists who persevered in the face of prejudice, including ichthyologist Eugenie Clark and mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles the lives of women athletes who have left their mark on their respective sports and the athletic field including Margaret Ives Abbott, Wilma Rudolph, Kristi Yamaguchi, Venus and Serena Williams, and Simone Biles.
77) L. M. Montgomery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the childhood of the Canadian author who wrote Anne of Green Gables.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born in 1867 in the Big Woods in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West--
79) Ellen Ochoa
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet award-winning engineer and veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa--once just a girl from Los Angeles, California. The granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, Ellen would pursue a career in physics at a young age and go on to earn master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In 1993, Ellen became the first Latina in space. As a retired astronaut, she became the first Hispanic and second female director of the Johnson...
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