She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer* Format:Hardcover full-color pictures and full-color endpapers

full-color pictures and full-color endpapers

In a world that seems determined to hate them

the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show

longing to return to Burleigh House

sets off a chain of events that draws young Lyra into a fierce struggle – a struggle that sends Lyra on a desperate quest to the Arctic north to rescue her best friend and hundreds of other children who have disappeared just like him

She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer* Format:Hardcover full-color pictures and full-color endpapers*SIGNED BOOKPLATE From Newbery Honorwinning author Kathryn Lasky comes a stunning nonfiction picture book about the incredible true story of Williamina Fleming, a woman who overcame impossible odds and helped pave the way for modern astronomical discovery. Ever since Williamina Mina Fleming was little, she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her lifes work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from