Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller!

This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.

I had higher expectations

My 10 year old and I listened to this together, so this is our combined opinion. It was good but a little monotonous, both in story and voice. It was still very interesting and eye opening to learn about the history.

Great book

l loved it. Looking forward to seeing the movie. Great information for young readers and inspiring for young kids across the country.

Movie is cute, but read the book!

Our house rule is to read the book before seeing the movie. When we listened to these women's stories we were impressed and amazed. The movie was a cute representation, but the book just intensifies the details. Highly recommend getting the"real" story!

patient loyalty and the will to do

this story was a whale told story a needed to tell story pick up to the Alpha Kappa Alpha's kiwi baby

Just amazing

It was such a nice book and it was so cool!
I loved everything!Please Read!