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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Picture Books for Black History Month
Space
Picture Books for Black History Month
Space
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
2) Mae Jemison
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"When Mae Jemison was a little girl, she dreamed of blasting off into space on a rocket ship. She was so excited as she watched the Apollo Moon landings, but she wondered... why none of the astronauts were women? Mae loved science and was so bright that she started college at just 16, and was training to be a doctor by the age of 20. She joined the Peace Corps, using her medical knowledge to help people in countries all around the world. Upon returning...
3) Mae Jemison
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Simple text and photographs present the life of Mae Jemison and how she became the first African American woman astronaut.
4) Mae Jemison
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A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut.
5) Mae Jemison
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"Simple text and photographs present the life of Mae Jemison"--
6) Mae Jemison
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A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut.--
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Mae Jemison is the first African American woman to travel to space. She's also a medical doctor who once joined the Peace Corps. And a trained dancer, too! This biography includes special sections with additional contextual details like secrets of NASA and things women couldn't do in the 1960s and 1970s.
11) Mae Jemison
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A biography of Dr. Mae Jemison who, in September of 1992, on the fiftieth mission of the United States Space Shuttle, became the first African American woman in space.
12) Mae Jemison
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An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and astronaut.