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03036aim a22004575a 4500 001 61A6F4321DE711E88A9C381B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180302010020 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180105s2016 xxunnn js z n eng d 020 $a 0062668587 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062668585 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11721489 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Shetterly, Margot Lee, $e author. 245 10 $a Hidden figures : $b the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space $h [electronic resource] / $c Margot Lee Shetterly. 246 3 $a Hidden figures young reader's edition 246 30 $a Untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space 246 3 $a Untold true story of 4 African-American women who helped launch our nation into space 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Harper Collins Publishers, $c 2016. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 11 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Bahni Turpin. 520 $a Now in a special new edition perfect for young listeners, this is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Soon to be a major motion picture. Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This audiobook brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African-American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 610 10 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $x Officials and employees $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Women mathematicians $z United States $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a African American women $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a African American mathematicians $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Space race $v Juvenile literature. 700 1 $a Turpin, Bahni, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11721489 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062668585_180.jpeg 941 $a 2 952 $l CHPB482 $d 20180728013137.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20180302010244.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61A6F4321DE711E88A9C381B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search