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These 25 women helped shape science. This book tells their stories. It questions the view that science has been men's work. Agnodice worked in medicine. Rosalind Franklin studied DNA. Vera Rubin studied the stars and space.

This book gives facts for children, with art throughout. It spans many fields. Some women studied animals or plants. Others worked in nursing, physics, or maths. Some studied how and why the earth shakes. The book covers work with computers, too. It looks at brain science and chemistry. It also covers drug research and the work of inventors.

Readers meet Maria Sibylla Merian. They also meet Caroline Lucretia Herschel and Henrietta Leavitt. Mileva Maric and Margaret Sanger appear, too. So do Emmy Noether and Beulah Louise Henry. The book includes Inge Lehmann. It includes Barbara McClintock and Grace Hopper, too. Readers also meet Rita Levi-Montalcini. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin appears as well. So do Maria Teresa Toral and Chien-Shiung Wu. The book also covers Gertrude Elion. Readers meet Stephanie Kwolek, too. Margaret Hamilton and Jude Milhon also appear. So do Sau Lan Wu and Patricia Bath. May-Britt Moser and Maryam Mirzakhani round out the group.

Irene Civico and Sergio Parra wrote for young readers. They hold these women up as examples, with girls in mind. All these women shared a love of science. Their stories challenge narrow views of who belongs in labs. Nuria Aparicio made the art. This edition forms part of the Hugs! series.