Grasping Mysteries

Grasping Mysteries
Author: Jeannine Atkins
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534460683

Learn about seven groundbreaking women in math and science in this gorgeously written biographical novel-in-verse, a companion to the “original and memorable” (Booklist, starred review) Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science. After a childhood spent looking up at the stars, Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and to earn a salary for scientific research. Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing nurse whose work reformed hospitals and one of the founders of the field of medical statistics. The first female electrical engineer, Hertha Marks Ayrton registered twenty-six patents for her inventions. Marie Tharp helped create the first map of the entire ocean floor, which helped scientists understand our subaquatic world and suggested how the continents shifted. A mathematical prodigy, Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories and launch windows for many NASA projects including the Apollo 11 mission. Edna Lee Paisano, a citizen of the Nez Perce Nation, was the first Native American to work full time for the Census Bureau, overseeing a large increase in American Indian and Alaskan Native representation. And Vera Rubin studied more than two hundred galaxies and found the first strong evidence for dark matter. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates seven remarkable women who used math as their key to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovative work that changed the world.

Grasping Mysteries

Grasping Mysteries
Author: Jeannine Atkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534460691

A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.

Finding Wonders

Finding Wonders
Author: Jeannine Atkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481465678

This “evocative and beautiful” (School Library Journal) novel “vividly imagines the lives of three girls” (Booklist, starred review) in three different time periods as they grow up to become groundbreaking scientists. Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects. More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people’s vision of the past. Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. At night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Maria longed to discover a new comet—and after years of studying the night sky, she finally did. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates the joy of discovery and finding wonder in the world around us.

Hidden Powers

Hidden Powers
Author: Jeannine Atkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665902507

A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline.

Homicide in Hardcover

Homicide in Hardcover
Author: Kate Carlisle
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451226150

Book expert Brooklyn Wainwright discovers that murder is always a bestseller in the first novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can’t be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn’s friend and former employer. On the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying in a pool of his own blood. With his final breath Abraham leaves Brooklyn with a cryptic message, “Remember the Devil,” and gives her a priceless—and supposedly cursed—copy of Goethe’s Faust for safe-keeping. Brooklyn suddenly finds herself accused of murder and theft, thanks to Derek Stone, the humorless—and annoyingly attractive—British security officer who found her kneeling over the body. Now she has to read the clues left behind by her mentor if she is going to restore justice...

MotherMysteries

MotherMysteries
Author: Maren Tonder Hansen
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Drawing on her three pregnancies, births, and babies, Maren Hansen invites us along on the journey into motherhood, where we see that the deepest spiritual realities are intertwined with the commonest daily events. Her story explores the inner experience of motherhood as a timeless and universal expression of feminine spirituality.

The Queene's Cure

The Queene's Cure
Author: Karen Harper
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2003-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440235952

In late summer of 1562, with handsome Lord Robert Dudley by her side, Elizabeth Tudor leads her retinue to London’s Royal College of Physicians -- to demand its help in the raging battle against disease and pestilence. But the stalwart queen is shaken when a frighteningly lifelike effigy of herself ravaged by pox turns up in her royal coach. Elizabeth’s fear that the counterfeit corpse is a harbinger of tragedy comes to fruition when ever more terrifying transgressions penetrate the very heart of her royal precincts. With the help of her Privy Plot Council , Elizabeth resolves to unmask a murderer who wears a false face and is beset by the vilest humours of the soul. But when she herself falls ill, an entire realm is caught in the grip of a treasonous conspiracy...as the indomitable young monarch fights for her life, her realm, and her rightful crown.

Stone Mirrors

Stone Mirrors
Author: Jeannine Atkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481459058

"A biographical novel in verse of a half Native American, half African American female sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, working in the years right after the Civil War"--

Borrowed Names

Borrowed Names
Author: Jeannine Atkins
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1429959401

As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother, Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.