Illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison

On Sale: Nov 19, 2024
Page Count: 40 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780316565486

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Discover the hidden figure who created the first comprehensive computer program to design ships for the US Navy.

Girls like Raye Montague weren’t supposed to like math or science, or go to engineering school. But tenacious Raye had a plan, one that eventually took her all the way to the US Navy. There, she was assigned an impossible task: to come up with a single computer program that could design every part of a ship. It had never been done before—but Raye’s groundbreaking program revolutionized the way ships and submarines were built, and set her on a path to become a pioneering figure in naval engineering and the navy’s first female program manager of ships.

Award-winning author Jennifer Swanson and acclaimed illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison celebrate a self-made engineer who worked around anyone and anything that stood in her way in this illuminating biography about never giving up on your dreams.

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* "The story unfolds in a dynamic text and emotion-packed illustrations.... An outstanding choice for biography and science classes, women’s history studies, and Black history studies."
School Library Journal, starred review
"As she proceeds from pigtails to gray-haired eminence in Jamison’s illustrations, Montague’s lively, intelligent gaze shines out....An inspiring and definitely underrecognized role model."
Kirkus Reviews
"An assured, STEM-themed story about a figure staying true to her dreams, over and over, and amid prejudice."

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Jennifer Swanson

About the Author

Jennifer Swanson is an award winning children’s author of more than 40 nonfiction and fiction books, including National Geographic Kids Brain Games, Super Gear: Nanotechnology and Sports Team Up, which was named a National Science Teaching Association’s Best STEM Book of 2017, and Save the Crash-test Dummies which received a Parent’s Choice Gold Award. She is also a middle school science instructor, and lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Veronica Miller Jamison

About the Illustrator

Veronica Miller Jamison is an illustrator whose clients include Essence Magazine, Bloomingdales, and Hallmark. A Computer Called Katherine is her debut picture book. She is an alumna of Howard University and Drexel University, and she lives outside Philadelphia. She invites you to visit her online at veronicamarche.com.

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