Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner’s Call to Science by Jeannine Atkins Intermediate, Middle School    Atheneum    288 pp.    g 1/22    978-1-6659-0250-2    $17.99 e-book ed.  978-1-6659-0252-6    $10.99 Another real-life, courageous, boundary-pushing woman gets some well-deserved attention in Atkins’s (Grasping M­ysteries, rev. 11/20; Finding Wonders, rev. 7/16) novel in verse. Readers first meet Jewish...

At the 2016 National Book Awards, the late Congressman John Lewis, being honored for the graphic memoir March: Book Three, spoke of being turned away, along with his sisters, brothers, and cousins, from an Alabama library in 1956. “And to come here and receive this award, this honor, it’s too...

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math by Jeannine Atkins Intermediate, Middle School    Atheneum    320 pp.    g 8/20    978-1-5344-6068-3    $17.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5344-6070-6    $10.99 Atkins’s (Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, rev. 7/16) latest collective biography in verse spotlights seven “women who used math to frame and solve problems, fix...