Perfect for fans of STEM, this inspiring picture book biography tells the extraordinary story of pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell. Maria longed to travel be

A biography of the first female science professor at Vassar College and the first American woman astronomer.

One resourceful girl. One determined squirrel. Great minds meet their match in this tale of persistence and learning that compromise can be a wonderful thing. P

New England blossomed in the nineteenth century, producing a crop of distinctively American writers along with distinguished philosophers and jurists, abolition

Presents a biography of the female astronomer, who developed a classification system for determining a star's spectrum while working as an assistant for Edward