They Never Gave Up! The Stories of Six Amazing Women (Boxed Set): Mae Jemison; Misty Copeland; Katherine Johnson; Roberta Gibb; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Shirley Chisholm

by Various, Various (Illustrator)

Overview

Meet six incredible women in this boxed set featuring fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Reads that are part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet”!

Get to know Roberta Gibb, the first female Boston marathon runner; Misty Copeland, the first African American prima ballerina for the American Ballet Theater; Katherine Johnson, one of the first African American female scientists to work for NASA, whose mathematical calculations helped the Apollo 11 program land the first astronauts on the moon; Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is still serving as a Supreme Court justice at age eighty-seven; and Shirley Chisholm, who in 1972 became the first African American woman to enter a Democratic presidential race!

A special section at the back of each book includes extras on subjects like ballet and space, plus fun trivia facts on marathons, the justice system, and more! With the You Should Meet series, biographies have never been so much fun!

This collection includes the following six books:
Roberta Gibb
Misty Copeland
Katherine Johnson
Mae Jemison
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Shirley Chisholm

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534478053
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	12/08/2020
Series:	You Should Meet Series
Edition description:	Boxed Set
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,067,723
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

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