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Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women  Cover Image Book Book

Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women / Catherine Thimmesh ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

Thimmesh, Catherine, (author.). Sweet, Melissa, 1956- (illustrator.).

Summary:

Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780395937440
  • ISBN: 0395937442
  • Physical Description: 57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Chronology of inventors and inventions printed on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ruth Wakefield -- Mary Anderson -- Stephanie Kwolek -- Bette Nesmith Graham -- Patsy O. Sherman -- Ann Moore -- Grace Murray Hopper -- Margaret E. Knight -- Jeanne Lee Crews -- Valerie L. Thomas -- Becky Schroeder -- Alexia Abernathy.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 7.4.
Reading Counts! 6.3.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 2.0 43785.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.3 5.0 22856.
Awards Note:
Sequoyah Masterlist, 2002-2003
Subject: Women inventors > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Inventions > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Women > Biography.
Genre: Young adult nonfiction.
Biographies.
Inventors.

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