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Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race

Shetterly, Margot Lee (author.). Conkling, Winifred, (author.). Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), (illustrator.). Spencer, Octavia, (narrator.). Shetterly, Margot Lee Adaptation of (expression): Hidden figures. (Added Author). Weston Woods Studios, (publisher.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781338581058
  • ISBN: 1338581058
  • ISBN: 9780062742469
  • ISBN: 0062742469
  • Physical Description: 1 audio disc (14 min., 48 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : color illustrations ; 29 cm).
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Weston Woods Studio/Scholastic, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Accompanying book originally published: New York : Harper Collins, 2018.
Compact disc.
Title from disc surface.
Formatted Contents Note: track 1. Story with page-turn signals (14:20) -- track 2. Story without page-turn signals (14:06) -- track 3. Timeline (3:00) -- track 4. Meet the computers: Dorothy Vaughan -- track 5. Meet the computers: Mary Jackson (1:42) -- track 6. Meet the computers: Katherine Johnson (1:37) -- track 7. Meet the computers: Christine Darden (1:23) -- track 8. Glossary (1:43) -- track 9. Author's note (1:24).
Creation/Production Credits Note: Music by Michael Bacon.
Participant or Performer Note: Narrated by Octavia Spencer and Margot Lee Shetterly.
Summary, etc.: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Target Audience Note:
Ages 4-8.
980L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader LG 5.8 0.5.
Awards Note:
Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book, 2019

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Subject: Vaughan, Dorothy 1910-2008 Juvenile literature
Jackson, Mary 1921-2005 Juvenile literature
Johnson, Katherine G Juvenile literature
Darden, Christine M Juvenile literature
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Juvenile literature
Women mathematicians United States Biography Juvenile literature
African American women Biography Juvenile literature
African American mathematicians Biography Juvenile literature
Space race Juvenile literature
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Juvenile literature
Women mathematicians
African American women
African American mathematicians
Space race
African Americans Biography
Women Biography
Genre: Picture books for children.
Children's audiobooks.
Biographies.
Picture books.

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