Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

Name: Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.9 (21 reviews)
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062668585

Author: Margot Lee Shetterly

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 4 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 11/29/2016

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical, African American & Black Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Astronomy

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller!This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. 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.

About Margot Lee Shetterly

Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susie on January 08, 2017

I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is one case where I think it would be beneficial to see the movie version first. The film is full of so much charm as it tells the story of the African-American women who were an important part of NACA, later NASA. The book is much more dry, but if you have......more

Goodreads review by Alysia on October 02, 2020

When the ads for Hidden Figures came out last year I was ecstatic. Not only did the movie look great and have a spectacular story to tell, the headliners were black women! I hadn’t seen the movie before starting the book, but I was excited anyway. I’m sorry to say I was disappointed. Very disappoint......more

Goodreads review by DeAnna on April 09, 2017

Fabulous. I know some readers are upset that this book doesn't have a novel- or movie-type plot with a main character and all end neatly tied up--but hey. That's life. I thoroughly enjoyed both the details and attitude here. But please do keep in mind that this isn't a biography, but a history.......more

Goodreads review by Debra on March 24, 2017

3.5 stars Back before Mega computers that did everything for us, there was a group of women (Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden) who answered the call by NASA to become “human computers” who used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers tha......more

Goodreads review by human on September 14, 2020

(3.5/5) It tells the story of important women who were (mostly) forgotten, and though it is quite interesting, it reads almost like a textbook.......more