Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist
by Sylvia Acevedo • Related Edition: Retelling
The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist... read more
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- 5-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Latino (US / Canada)
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2018
Word Count 57,143
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 960L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 196957, 9 AR Points
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- English Language Arts
- Math
- Science
- Spanish
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Engineers
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
- Acevedo, Sylvia
- Hispanic American scientists--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Acevedo, Sylvia--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic/Latino
- Women engineers
- Engineers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America--Officials and employees
- Hispanic American women
- Hispanic American women--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America
- Hispanic American scientists
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Officials and employees
- Women engineers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Lists With This Book
- Sample: EL Education, Grades 6-8
- Autobiography & Memoir: Hispanic
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