Jeannine Atkins

"A biographical novel in verse of three different girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists"--

A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline. Narrative biography in verse describes the life of Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner who earned a doctoral degree in 1905, becoming the first woman from the University of Vienna to do so. She later went on to discover the element...

An account of the finding of the first entire skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an extinct sea reptile, by a twelve-year-old English girl who went on to become a paleontologist.

Tells the stories of women who have dared to challenge prejudices and rules to take their place in the skies--from Katherine Wright and Bessie Coleman to Jackie Cochran, Shannon Lucid, and Eileen Collins.