Reshma Saujani

Girls Who Code Founder

From the Series Gateway Biographies

  • Interest Level: Grade 4 - Grade 8
  • Reading Level: Grade 5

Reshma Saujani is an attorney and the first Indian American woman to run for US Congress. She later founded Girls Who Code to help close the gender gap in technology. This inspiring biography shares Saujani’s story.

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978-1-5415-3549-7
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Interest Level Grade 4 - Grade 8
Reading Level Grade 5
Genre Social Studies
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Narrative Nonfiction, Biography
Copyright 2019
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Number of Pages 48
Publication Date 2018-08-01
Text Type Narrative Nonfiction
BISACS JNF007120, JNF007090
Dewey 340.092 [B]
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 940
ATOS Reading Level 6.2
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 198886
Accelerated Reader® Points 1.0
Features Bibliography/further reading, Index, Source notes, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and Timeline

Author: Jill Sherman

Jill Sherman writes fiction and nonfiction books for young readers. She started out her career in publishing as an editor, but soon discovered that her real joy was in writing. She has written dozens of books for young people, including fiction works, as well as news and magazine articles for print and digital publications. She thoroughly enjoys researching new topics to provide young readers with the best information that they can use in their own studies. Jill lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.

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Gateway Biographies

Discover the human side of newsworthy, historical, and pop culture figures, and learn about people leading key social movements or handling crises. Each biography in this easy-reading series is peppered with quotations and stories, accounts of successes and failures, and descriptions of… View available downloads →