StarTalk Young Readers Edition: Everything You Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond. Speak Up! Confronting Discrimination in Your Daily Life (series). The Space Race: How the Cold War Put Humans on the Moon. Next-Generation Medical Technology (series). I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope. Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration. Spring.Įconomic Inequality: The American Dream under Siege. Spring.Ĭourageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More. All titles will be published in the spring 2018 season.īeing Female in America (series). In this book from the Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction series, young readers will learn about how these women broke both racial and sex barriers to become a key part of NASA's development.With its narrative tone full of existing twists and turns, this is a compelling look at the women who helped our astronauts take flight.This announcement section offers Booklist readers a selected preview of especially notable new titles for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. It also carries the time line beyond 1969 to introduce several women working for NASA today., In this narrative nonfiction book, young readers learn about these dedicated women, and then get a look at how women working at NASA today feel about their place in the space agency., At a time when segregation was still the law of the land and everyone knew girls didn't dream of science careers, African-American mathematicians performed the critical calculations that allowed America to reach for outer space. This book tells the tale of how each woman contributed to this amazing accomplishment and the struggles and resistance each experienced., Annie Easley and Christine Darden join the women made famous in Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures (2016), making this a worthy companion title.

Four women, African American mathematicians at NASA, made it possible for the United States to launch rockets-and astronauts-into space.

Hidden Women by Rebecca Rissman