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46) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Discover the inspiring story of Helen Keller, whose activism changed the world for blind and deaf people, and many others.
48) Yayoi Kusama
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Get to know Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people "you should meet!""--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11"--
"As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal...
55) Nikki Grimes
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs introduce readers to Nikki Grimes.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today, with recognition"--
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