Women Astronomers:
Reaching for the Stars
by Mabel Armstrong 

Winner GOLD ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award

Winner SILVER Moonbeam Book of the Year Award

WINNER Reader Views Book Award

Selected for the Amelia Bloomer List
The judge said: "[O]ne of the best books I've seen this year." 

To be published in Russia by Dodeka in 2010.

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.