Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

This verse novel follows Maria Sibylla Merian, Mary Anning, and Maria Mitchell as they grow up in three different centuries. Each confronts restricted expectations for girls while pursuing close observation and scientific work. Merian studies moth and butterfly life cycles and records them in paintings; Anning helps uncover a fossil later identified as an ichthyosaur; and Mitchell’s sustained skywatching leads to a comet discovery. The book presents their paths from childhood into adulthood in three fictionalized verse narratives.