Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Rachel Dougherty. NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK. Roaring Brook (Macmillan), 2019. $18. 9781250155320
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
When her husband, the engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge gets sick of cassion poisoning (or “the bends” during its building, Emily, his wife and scientist in her own right takes over the job. In order to relay his orders each day she took it upon herself to study engineering. And order to prove to the city that the bridge is safe, she is the first to cross it officially.
So many good books about women throughout history who worked at breaking stereotypes of their “place”. Add this is almost any STEM collection.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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