Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space by Suzanne Slade PGW Sandra Steingraber was inspired to

Sandra Steingraber was inspired to activism by Silent Spring

setting up a potting station

These precise timelines reveal the ideal schedules for everything from starting seedlings to harvesting honey

It was spring

They can't figure out why their child acts the way he or she does

Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space by Suzanne Slade PGW Sandra Steingraber was inspired toA New York Public Library Best Book for Kids The inspirational story of Mary Sherman, the world's first female rocket scientist, who overcame gender barriers and many failures to succeed. Growing up in the 1920s on a dirt poor farm in North Dakota, Mary Sherman's life was filled with chores until she finally began school and discovered she loved to learn. Mary excelled at science, especially chemistry, and leaped at the chance to work in a laboratory