Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
17299
Points per Word
0.000173
Page Count
58
Points per Page
0.051724
Description
This profile of six women who defied prejudice to succeed in the sciences includes the stories of Eugenie Clark, Marie Tharp, NASA's Katherine Coleman Johnson, Florence Hawley Ellis, Gertrude Elion, and Margaret Burbidge.