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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
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. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The author discusses how her military family encouraged her to fight the tradition of the corps and Southern culture, and endure the hardship of military life to become The Citadel's first female graduate.
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