Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space
Mary Mary Sherman grew up on a farm in North Dakota with four older brothers and sisters But there was always too much work for too few hands Though women had been able to vote for nearly ten years Mary couldn't vote about her chores All day long she fed chickens milked cows and cleaned the creamer Until one day the sheriff and a social services woman came calling They said eight year old Mary belonged in school It was the law
C b All the children at school knew how to read except Mary She didn't even know the alphabet Mary worked hard to catch up but she had to keep up with her chores too While milking the cows she studied the sound of each letter Before long she was reading stacks of books Mary loved learning and her favorite subject was science A
