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Author Wallmark, Laurie, author.

Title Her eyes on the stars : Maria Mitchell, astronomer / by Laurie Wallmark ; illustrated by Liz Wong

Publication Info. [Berkeley, CA] : Creston Books, [2023]
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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Children's Books  J 509 MITCHELL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Children's Items  JB-MITCHELL WAL    Check Shelf
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary Maria Mitchell's curiosity about the night sky led her to spend hours studying the stars. She discovered a comet as a young woman, winning an award from the King of Denmark for being the first person to discover a new comet using a telescope. Now famous as "the lady astronomer," Maria went on to become a professional astronomer, an unheard of achievement for a woman in the 19th century. She was the first woman to get any kind of government job when she was hired by the United States Naval Observatory. Then as the first woman astronomy professor in the world, Maria used her position at Vassar College to teach young women to set their sights on the sky, training new generations of female astronomers. Her story inspires all of us to reach for the stars.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 -- Juvenile literature.
Astronomers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women astronomers -- Juvenile literature.
Comets -- Juvenile literature.
Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889.
Astronomers -- Biography.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature -- Astronomy.
Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgMB7cQXbv9YQkHd8gHYP (OCoLC)fst00011255
Astronomers (OCoLC)fst00819629
Comets (OCoLC)fst00869108
Women astronomers (OCoLC)fst01177176
Genre/Form Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
Juvenile works (OCoLC)fst01411637
Picture books.
Biographies.
Added Author Wong, Liz, illustrator.
Added Title Maria Mitchell, astronomer
ISBN 9781954354135 (hardcover)
1954354134 (hardcover)
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