Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
What's This Book About
An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Picture Book Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation’s first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work. Cherokee author Traci Sorell and Métis illustrator Natasha Donovan trace Ross’s journey from being the only girl in a high school math class to becoming a teacher to pursuing an engineering degree, joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed, and being a mentor for Native Americans and young women interested in engineering. In addition, the narrative highlights Cherokee values including education, working cooperatively, remaining humble, and helping ensure equal opportunity and education for all.”A stellar addition to the genre that will launch careers and inspire for generations, it deserves space alongside stories of other world leaders and innovators.”–starred, Kirkus Reviews
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Traci Sorell began writing for young people when she saw a lack of children’s books featuring Native Americans to share with her son. She is an enrolled Cherokee Nation citizen and lives in northeastern Oklahoma where her tribe is located. We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga is her first picture book.
Natasha Donovan is a freelance artist and illustrator from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her sequential work has been published in The Other Side anthology and will appear in the forthcoming anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold. She is the illustrator of the award-winning children’s book, The Sockeye Mother. Natasha is a member of the Métis Nation of British Columbia.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781541579149
- Publication Date
- March 2, 2021
- Page Count
- 32
- Reading Age
- 7 - 11 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2020021725
- Lexile® Level
- 940L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~V
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5.2
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 511712
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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