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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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The uplifting, amazing true story — a New York Times best seller!

This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young students. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. 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, 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.

This middle grade nonfiction book is an excellent choice for tween children in grades 4 to 6, in the classroom or for homeschooling.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Margot Lee Shetterly (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Astronomy & Space Biographies Black & African American Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Multicultural Stories Science & Technology Social & Life Skills Women Nonfiction Equality
Meaningful Story • Powerful Message • Detailed History • Fluent Reading • Inspiring Content
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Our house rule is to read the book before seeing the movie. When we listened to these women's stories we were impressed and amazed. The movie was a cute representation, but the book just intensifies the details. Highly recommend getting the"real" story!

Movie is cute, but read the book!

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so much repeatitive story lines per chapter assumes you never read there chapters
my child really like the speaker, but never got chapter 7, because it became boring.

horrible writing, good movie

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l loved it. Looking forward to seeing the movie. Great information for young readers and inspiring for young kids across the country.

Great book

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My 10 year old and I listened to this together, so this is our combined opinion. It was good but a little monotonous, both in story and voice. It was still very interesting and eye opening to learn about the history.

I had higher expectations

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this story was a whale told story a needed to tell story pick up to the Alpha Kappa Alpha's kiwi baby

patient loyalty and the will to do

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It was such a nice book and it was so cool!
I loved everything!Please Read!

Just amazing

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This book is really good i recommend it to young readers the reading was fluent

This book is really good

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Very good story. Very educational as well. A very smart intelligent woman to go on and do amazing things.

Hidden figures

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It was a good book, but a little boring. Thanks for this book experience
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A good book

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I am a 6th grade Science teacher. I used this book/ audible in my class for two weeks as I was starting my unit on Investigating Space. Scholars loved the connections with the book as we were learning about NASA and historical events in space.

My students LOVED this book!

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