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Author:

Acevedo, Sylvia, author.

Title:

Path to the stars : my journey from Girl Scout to rocket scientist / Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Publisher:

Clarion Booksan imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Acevedo, Sylvia--Juvenile literature.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America--Officials and employees.
Women engineers--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Engineers--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Hispanic American women--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Hispanic American scientists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Biographies.

Summary:

The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A meningitis outbreak in their underprivileged neighborhood left Sylvia Acevedos family forever altered. As she struggled in the aftermath of loss, young Sylvias life transformed when she joined the Brownies. The Girl Scouts taught her how to take control of her world and nourished her love of numbers and science. With new confidence, Sylvia navigated shifting cultural expectations at school and at home, forging her own trail to become one of the first Latinx to graduate with a master's in engineering from Stanford University and going on to become a rocket scientist at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory."-- provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1328809560
9781328809568

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1016756345

LCCN:

2018005790

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