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Hopkinson, Deborah

Maria's Comet

32 pp. | Atheneum/Schwartz | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81501-8 $$16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Deborah Lanino. A fictionalized, first-person story of the childhood of Maria Mitchell, America's first female astronomer, is recounted in quietly poetic text. Maria longs to "sweep the sky" with a telescope as her father does, instead of sweeping the floor with a broom. Acrylic paintings nicely suit the story's nineteenth-century Nantucket setting and Maria's dreamy but determined nature. An afterword provides more information. Glos.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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