《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评

ea. vol: illus. by Marian Menzel. 31p. (American Women in Science Biog raphy Series). CIP. Equity Institute. Oct. 1985. pap. $3.95. Gr 2-5An inspiring group of biogra phies of women in science. Covering women from different ethnic back grounds, these stories relate the lives of some successful contemporary profes sionals, concentrating on their child hoods. They discuss not only the suc cesses but also the problems that each woman encountered. Comanche Indian Nancy Wallace became an engineer with one of America's largest corpora tions. Besides discussing her life, the book describes career options for engi neers. Scientist and Governor, Dixy Lee Ray tells about Ray's struggles and accomplishmentsbeing the youngest girl to climb Mt. Rainier, earning a doc torate in marine biology, becoming the first woman to head the Atomic Energy Commission and the first woman to be elected governor of the state of Wash ington. Constance Tom Noguchi is the nuclear physicist who accomplished breakthrough research on sickle cell anemia. Agnes Naranjo Stroud-Lee made advancements in the field of birth defects. Elma Gonzalez struggled to become a scientist in charge of her own laboratory at UCLA, for when she was growing up she missed school every spring because of her family's migrant farm work. Children in the lower grades will enjoy these biographies, and those in the upper grades with reading prob lems will be able to use them for current biographical information.Deanna J. McDaniel, Elmwood Elementary School, Lima, Ohio (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.