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Classified the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer

"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--

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Main Author: Sorell, Traci (Author)
Other Authors: Donovan, Natasha (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2021]
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Ross, Mary Golda > Juvenile nonfiction.
Women aerospace engineers > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Cherokee Indians > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Biographies > Juvenile.
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Summary:"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Audience:Ages 7-11
Grades 2-3
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781541579149
1541579143
Author Notes:Traci Sorell is the author of Sibert, Orbis Pictus, AILA American Indian Youth Literature Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga . Her title Classified : The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer was also named an Orbis Pictus Honor Book and a AILA American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book. She is an enrolled citizen of the CherokeeNation and lives in northeastern Oklahoma, where her tribe is located. Natasha Donovan is the illustrator of the award-winning Mothers of Xsan series (written by Brett Huson). She illustrated the graphic novel Surviving the City (written by Tasha Spillett), which won a Manitoba Book Award and received an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) honor. She also illustrated Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer whichwon an Orbis Pictus Honor Book and an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA). Natasha is Métis, and spent her early life in Vancouver, British Columbia. Although she moved to the United States to marry a mathematician, she prefers to keep her own calculations to the world of color and line. She lives in Washington. www.natashadonovan.com

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