Ada Lovelace Creates an Algorithm (Events That Changed Your World)

How does a search engine find just the right information? It uses a set of instructions you never see. And that wouldn’t be possible without the ideas of Ada Lovelace—the first person to describe an algorithm. With historical images and key events before and after Lovelace’s innovation, this book will help kids understand Lovelace’s groundbreaking impact on the history of computers. Uncover the details of events that changed your world in this Pebble Explore series.

Rachel Werner has written numerous picture books, including Floods and Moving & Grooving to Fillmore's Beat, as well as the nonfiction middle grade title Glow & Grow: A Brown Girl's Positive Body Guide and the forthcoming nonfiction YA title Beauty Emancipation. She is on faculty for Hugo House in Seattle, Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, and the Loft Literacy Center in Minneapolis, where she leads curricula to educate writers and content producers in marketing their work.