Jeannine Atkins

Jeannine Atkins

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Jeannine Atkins is the author of several books for young readers about courageous women, including Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis; Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science; and the highly praised Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C. J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters. Jeannine teaches children's literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and writing at Simmons College. She lives in western Massachusetts. Visit her at JeannineAtkins.com.
1st January 2011

Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists

An inspiring famous women book for girls, Girls Who Looked Under Rocks also makes the perfect feminist gift for girls.... MoreGirls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists

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2nd November 2017

Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

This “evocative and beautiful” (School Library Journal) novel “vividly imagines the lives of three girls” (Booklist, sta... MoreFinding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

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13th July 2021

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math

“Informative, pithy, wry, very readable.” —Booklist Learn about seven groundbreaking women in math and science in this g... MoreGrasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math

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1st March 1998

Get Set! Swim!

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30th March 2023

Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science

From the acclaimed author of Finding Wonders and Grasping Mysteries comes a gorgeously written biography in “deliberate,... MoreHidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science

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