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Title details for Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark by Allen R. Wells - Available

Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark

by Allen R. Wells
DeAndra Hodge
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Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

Based on a true story, this inspiring audiobook is about a curious, tinkering girl who grew up to become one of the first Black female engineers for NASA; for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and Counting on Katherine.
Yvonne Clark had an engineering spark—an instinct for figuring out how things worked.
Broken lamp? She screwed, rewired, and wrenched until...light!
Wrecked radio? She twisted, snipped, and hammered until...music!
Clogged furnace? She picked, plucked, and cleared until...heat!
When she grew up, Yvonne's problem-solving power took her to NASA, where fellow engineers had a serious problem with the Saturn V rocket's F-1 engine: It had hot spots—high temperatures in the engine.
Can Yvonne Clark and her engineering spark solve the problem?
In an electric tribute, Allen R. Wells artfully tells the life story of his favorite engineering professor who also happened to be one of our nation's most influential African American engineers.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  • Release date

    January 7, 2025

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781250386748
      • File size: 6418 KB
      • Duration: 00:13:22

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 25, 2024
      Wells opens this upbeat biography of engineering ace Yvonne Clark (1929–2019) with an anecdote showcasing her early
      aptitude, recounting how she fixed the family’s toaster through self-study and trial and error. Presenting the figure as an instinctual problem-solver, text points out Clark’s boundary-defying
      persistence (“Because she was a girl, Yvonne wasn’t allowed to
      take certain classes—but that didn’t stop her from learning”) as
      she navigates college and male-dominated workplaces, such as an arsenal where she improves a firearm and NASA, where she tackles issues around the Saturn V rocket. Bright coloring enlivens Hodge’s slick, chunky digital artwork, which routinely presents Clark as wide-eyed with excitement, and pages bedazzled with comic book–style stars amplify the text’s snappy, often punning articulation of how passion’s “spark” can yield superhero-like powers. Background characters are portrayed with various skin tones. An author’s note concludes. Ages 4–7.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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