I, Ada

Nominated for the Carnegie MedalHighly Commended, Young Quills Historical Fiction AwardAda Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical horses and stories inspired by her travels. Free to find love and passion beyond the watchful gaze of her mother and governesses. And free to learn the full truth about her father, the notorious Lord Byron. Then Ada meets a man whose invention might just change the world - and he needs her visionary brilliance to bring it to life . . .A wonderfully witty and poignant portrayal of the young life of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is hailed as the world's first computer programmer.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Gray
• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2020
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age
• EAN: 9781839130076
• ISBN: 978-1-83913-007-6
• Pages: 326
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 18
• Dimensions (packing): 12.8 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm
• Subjects: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Europe, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Computers & Digital Media, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Literary, c 1800 to c 1900, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), True stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Romanticism, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Interest age: from c 12 years, Interest age: from c 13 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Computing and Information Technology, Oscar Wilde Alan Turing Rebel Girls Boys Dare Different Adventurous, Fantastically Great Elena Favilli Cavallo little people big dreams Kahlo, Rosa Parks Jane Goodall Laura Bates Burning Things Bright Nicholls, Babbage Analytical machine invention victorian history marie curie anning franklin, Mathematics computer science STEM STEAM technology engineering programmer code digital, Women suffragettes Einstein hawking Edison Tesla Faraday Darwin Newton Brunel, Florence Nightingale Lewis Carroll Gladstone Pankhurst Elizabeth Fry Eliot Hardy, Johnson feminists Pink Curtis Criado Perez Beard Ngozi Adichie Downham, Dickens Alexander Graham Bell Isambard Kingdom Disraeli Stephenson Rocket Pasteur, Romantics poetry Byron Shelley Keats Mary Frankenstein Stevenson Conan Doyle