Swaby, Rachel Trailblazers:
33 Women in Science Who Changed the World, 167 pgs. Delacorte Press, 2016. $15.99
Content: Language: PG (1 swear); Mature Content: G; Violence: G.
Thirty-three different women scientists are
categorized into four areas of science: technology and invention, earth and stars,
health and medicine, and biology. Each
category is given a two page introduction before each chapter is broken into a
short biography of 4-6 pages about each woman and their contribution to
science. The scientific explanation of
what they discovered is simplified and the eventual recognition they received
is also listed.
I enjoyed this book,
reading a couple of chapters a day. I
think the overall emphasis was that women made amazing, life-changing
contributions to our world and often times they were met with discrimination
and hardship because of their gender.
This would be a book for teachers to break up and assign different women scientists, but I'm not sure how many kids would read this cover to cover. I also wish there would have been a little more about their personal
lives.
MS, HS – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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