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Richard Maurer—The Woman in the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Helped Fly the First Astronauts to the Moon

In thousands of hours of manned spaceflight, all dependent on computers, the Apollo Guidance Computer never failed. In an era when men dominated computers and spaceflight, Margaret Hamilton and her team wrote AGC’s software. Richard Maurer interviewed Hamilton and tells her story for readers age 10-14 in The Woman in the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Helped Fly the First Astronauts to the Moon.

Bookshelf photo adapted from original photo by Rebecca Heisman

Rebecca Heisman—Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

Where do birds go when seasons change? A 17th-century theory posited they flew to the moon. Researchers today use radar, satellites, light-level geolocation, DNA, data from community bird-watchers, and more to track and understand migration patterns, as Rebecca Heisman details in Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.

Photo of a bookshelf containing some of the books Amy Marcus read to understand the history of patient-led activism, the ethics of collaboration between patients and scientists, and the history of science in the modern era. Photo by Amy Marcus

Amy Dockser Marcus—We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine

Parents of children with rare, potentially fatal, disorders, building on activism by people with breast cancer and HIV, have spurred the burgeoning citizen-science movement. Their efforts, Amy Dockser Marcus reports in We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine, have improved both national health policy and social and political equality.

Horizontal photo of a shelf of books used by Diana P. Parsell for research on forthcoming book, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Woman Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" Photo by Diana Parsell

Diana Parsell—Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees

From the 1890s to the 1920s, reporter/photographer Eliza Scidmore covered Alaska’s Klondike gold rush, Japan’s emergence as a modern world power, and other world events for National Geographic and other publications. She also orchestrated Japan’s 1912 gift of 3000 cherry trees to Washington, DC, Diana Parsell recounts in Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees.

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