| Portion of title |
How Marie Tharp revealed the ocean's biggest secret |
| Abstract |
'From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job at a laboratory in New York. But then she faced another barrior: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was irrefutable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office." -- Amazon.com |
| Local note | Joyner TRC copy 30372017452936 purchased in memory of James Thompson, 2021. |
| General note | Includes one fold-out page. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Interest grade level |
Pre-Kindergarten - Grade 2 |
| Awards note | Honor winner for the 2021 Janes Addams Books for Younger Children Award. |
| Genre/form | Picture books. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Instructional and educational works. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Picture books. |
| LCCN | 2019938103 |
| ISBN | 0735265089 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780735265080 hardcover |
| ISBN | (EPUB) |
