Emily Arnold McCully

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe....

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take Pip and her friends trick-or-treating on Halloween.

"Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and the first woman to be paid as a scientist."--