Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space
by Margot Lee Shetterly • Related Edition: Original
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- 5-8
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- Biography
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- Cultural Experience
- African American
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2016
Word Count 34,791
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1120L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.2
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- Quiz 187011, 6 AR Points
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- Women--Biography
- United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African American mathematicians
- African American women
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- African American mathematicians--Biography--Juvenile literature
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- Space race--Juvenile literature
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- African American women--Biography--Juvenile literature
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- African Americans
- Women mathematicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Space race
- African Americans--Biography
- Women mathematicians
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