02343cam a2200421 i 4500 623701770 TxAuBib 20180419120000.0 171113t20172016||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781432843274 1432843273 KyBuM KyBuM eng eng rda rda rda KyBuM rda TxAuBib KyBuM TxAuBib rda Shetterly, Margot Lee, author. Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition : The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space / By Margot Lee Shetterly. Large print edition. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017. ©2016. 281 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes chronology. Includes glossary. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index. "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, four African-American women 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"--From the publisher's web site. 4-8 Medialog, Inc. 8-12. 1120L Lexile. 20180419. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Juvenile literature. Women mathematicians United States Juvenile literature. African American women Biography Juvenile literature. African American mathematicians Biography Juvenile literature. Space race Juvenile literature. Large print books. lcgft Biographies. lcgft TXKPL