Verheyden-Hilliard, Mary Ellen.
Scientist and strategist, June Rooks / by Mary Ellen Verheyden-Hilliard ; drawings by Holly Meeker Rom.
A brief, illustrated biography of June Rooks, a black woman who contracted polio as a child, struggled against poverty, earned her degree in physics, and went on to become an Operations Research Analyst with the United States Navy.
Rooks, June -- Juvenile literature.
Rooks, June.
African American women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Physicists.
Women scientists.
African Americans -- Biography.
People with disabilities.
African Americans with disabilities -- Juvenile literature.
Rom, Holly Meeker, ill.
June Rooks.