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Author Thimmesh, Catherine.

Title The sky's the limit : stories of discovery by women and girls / Catherine Thimmesh ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 500.82 Thimme Sky 2002    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 73 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67) and index.
Summary Presents brief accounts of the work of a variety of women scientists in such fields as astronomy, biology, anthropology, and medicine.
Contents To obtain knowledge of, as through observation or study: It sure is dark out there / Vera Rubin -- Let's start at the very beginning / Denise Schmandt-Besserat -- The little rover that could / Donna Shirley -- Tools in the jungle / Jane Goodall -- To be the first to find, learn of, or observe: Biggest, baddest, best / Sue Hendrickson -- The longest day of the year / Anna Sofaer -- My, what big teeth you have / Mary Leakey -- On the road again / June Moxon -- A desire to know or learn: Get the lead out / Katie Murray -- Up in smoke / Klara, Eli, Erin, Lindsey -- Drinkable puddles / Rachael Charles.
Study Program Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 8.4 2 SD Quiz 58902 English non-fiction.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Women in science -- Juvenile literature.
Women in science.
Discoveries in science -- Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in science.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Literature.
Juvenile works.
Added Author Sweet, Melissa, 1956- illustrator.
ISBN 0618076980 (RNF)
9780618076987
0618494898 (PAP)
9780618494897 (PAP)