Women Astronomers:
Reaching for the Stars
by Mabel Armstrong 

Nominated for the Amelia Bloomer List

Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars by Mabel Armstrong is the first in a planned series of "Discovering Women in Science" books for Young Adults. Women Astronomers covers some of the fascinating women who dared to look toward the stars from the first known woman astronomer Hypatia of Alexandria to Astronaut Sally Ride and all the fascinating, brave women in between.

The astronomers featured are: EnHuduanna, Hypatia of Alexandria, Sondok, Hildegard of Bingen, Caroline Herschel, Maria Mitchell, Williamina Steven Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Antonia Maury, Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Margaret Burbidge, Nancy Roman, Vera Rubin, Beatrice Tinsley, Joyce Bell Burnell, Margaret Geller, Carolyn Shoemaker, Sally Ride, Jill Tartar, Wendy Freedman and the rising "stars" of today.

Women Astronomers is intended for a High School audience.