Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
by Margot Lee Shetterly · Grade 5-8 · Ages Ages 10-14
This inspiring nonfiction book introduces the brilliant Black women mathematicians who worked at NASA during a time when many doors were unfairly closed to them. It begins by showing how their talent, courage, and hard work helped make space travel possible.
Key vocabulary
A person who studies or works with numbers, shapes, and patterns.
A person who designs and builds things, like machines, bridges, or spacecraft.
An unfair system that kept people apart because of the color of their skin.
To figure out an answer using math.
The path something follows as it moves through the air or space.
The science of flying and how airplanes and spacecraft move.
In this book, it can mean a person whose job was to do difficult math by hand.
Someone who is one of the first to do something important, making a path for others.