Title Human computer : Mary Jackson, engineer / Andi Diehn ; illustrated by Katie Mazeika.

Publication Info.	White River Junction, VT : Nomad Press, 2019.
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Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	JB JACKSON	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	JB JACKSON	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Department	JJ EARLY READERS JB JACKSON	Check Shelf

Description	30 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Series	Picture book biography
	Diehn, Andi. Picture book biography.
Note	"Focus on science"--Back cover.
Summary	"When Mary Jackson was growing up, she thought being an engineer was impossible for her. Why? After all, she was fantastic at math and science. She worked really hard to learn all she could in school. Why did this smart little girl think she couldn't be an engineer? Elementary aged readers explore America's history of segregation through the life of Mary Jackson, who overcame challenges to become the first African American women to work at NASA! In Human Computer: Mary Jackson, Engineer, readers ages 5 to 8 learn what it was like for Mary Jackson to work in a place where she couldn't eat in the same lunchroom or even use the same bathroom as her white coworkers. But when she glimpsed an opportunity to work with the math and science she loved to do, she decided nothing was going to stop her. Human Computer is part of a set of four books in the Picture Book Biography series that introduces pioneers of science to young children.
Audience	Ages 5-8.
	Grade Level 1-3.
Subject	Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Aerospace engineers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Space race -- Juvenile literature.
	Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
	African American women mathematicians.
	African American women aerospace engineers.
	Women mathematicians.
	Women aerospace engineers.
	African Americans -- Biography.
	Women -- Biography.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (OCoLC)fst00528469
	Aerospace engineers. (OCoLC)fst00798629
	African American mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst00799231
	African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
	Space race. (OCoLC)fst01127802
	Women mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst01178130
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Mazeika, Katie, illustrator.
Added Title	Mary Jackson, engineer
ISBN	9781619307773 (softcover)
	1619307774 (softcover)
	9781619307742 (hardcover)
	161930774X (hardcover)

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