Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
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An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Picture Book
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work.
Cherokee author Traci Sorell and Métis illustrator Natasha Donovan trace Ross's journey from being the only girl in a high school math class to becoming a teacher to pursuing an engineering degree, joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed, and being a mentor for Native Americans and young women interested in engineering. In addition, the narrative highlights Cherokee values including education, working cooperatively, remaining humble, and helping ensure equal opportunity and education for all.
"A stellar addition to the genre that will launch careers and inspire for generations, it deserves space alongside stories of other world leaders and innovators."--starred, Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 32
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 11.10h x 9.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781541579149
Age: Ages 9-12
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 511712 / Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Award: American Indian Youth Literature Award - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2021
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 58
School Library Journal 04/01/2021 pg. 138
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2021 pg. 142
About the Author
Sorell, Traci: - Traci Sorell is the author of Sibert, Orbis Pictus, AILA American Indian Youth Literature Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and lives in northeastern Oklahoma, where her tribe is located.Donovan, Natasha: - Natasha Donovan is the illustrator of the award-winning Mothers of Xsan series (written by Brett Huson). She also illustrated the graphic novel Surviving the City (written by Tasha Spillett), which won a Manitoba Book Award and received an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) honor. Natasha is Métis, and spent her early life in Vancouver, British Columbia. Although she moved to the United States to marry a mathematician, she prefers to keep her own calculations to the world of color and line. She lives in Washington. www.natashadonovan.com