Rooftop Astronomer: A Story about Maria Mitchell

This book was about a female named Maria Mitchell. She lived in Nantucket, Massachusetts in the 1800s. Most girls weren't allowed to go to school back then. Maria and her family were Quakers. Quakers believed that girls should go to school. She liked to study. She was taught by her father, an avid amateur astonomer. Most nights she looked through a telescope or just used her eyes to look into space. Her first real career was as a teacher at her own school, and then she worked at a library. When she was older, she became the first woman professor at Vasser Women's College. She discovered a comet.I liked this book very much because it is a very interesting biography. It went all through her life without telling too many dates. I learned a lot.

An inspirational biography about a woman astronomer who in the early 1900's discovered the comet which now bears her name.....Maria's Comet. We read this chapter book to our kindergarten Montessori class on Cape Cod and the children were quite taken with Miss Mitchell's life and her accomplishments. One of our 6 year old students travelled to the island, to Maria's home and observatory and returned to the class to show photos and tell of what see had seen. Often it is hard to findquality stories with heroines for young children. This one is top notch!