Finding wonders
Subtitle: three girls who changed science
By: Jeannine Atkins
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781481465656; 9781481465663
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Paleontologists; Women scientists; Fiction; Astronomers; Sex role; Scientists; Juvenile fiction; Biography; Naturalists
Description: A novel in verse about three girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists. Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects. More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people&#x2019;s vision of the past. Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. At night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Maria longed to discover a new comet -- and after years of studying the night sky, she finally did.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195).

Ages 10-14.
Table of contents: title: Mud, moths, and mystery: Maria Sibylla Merian; title: Secrets in stones: Mary Anning; title: Many stars, one comet: Maria Mitchell.