Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding
by Jennifer Swanson (Author), Veronica Miller Jamison (Illustrator)
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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Reviews:
* “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.”
―Publishers Weekly
“An intriguing biography of a lesser-known engineer.”―Booklist
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Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (November 19, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 40 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316565482
ISBN-13 : 978-0316565486
Reading age : 4 – 8 years
Grade level : Preschool – 3
