Ainissa Ramirez

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon, this is a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us. The Alchemy of Us was a finalist for the 41st Los Angeles Times Book Award in Science and Technology and was selected as one of the Best Summer Science...

Gladys’s mind swirls with numbers and shapes as the world enters the high-tech space age. This is the lyrical true story of a groundbreaking Black mathematician whose inventions led to the creation of GPS.Little Gladys is a farm girl who loves math. But as a Black kid growing up in Virginia in the mid-twentieth century, she sees life around her...