has been a teacher in Syracuse, New York; Omaha, Nebraska; and
Virginia Beach, Virginia; teaching elementary school, middle
school, high school, and in a community college. She has also
been a newspaper woman, a general reporter, a business reporter,
and an associate editor and editorial writer at Norfolk's
Virginian-Pilot. Hakim earned a bachelor’s degree at Smith
College and a master’s of education as well as an honorary
doctorate at Goucher College. Her prize-winning history books A
History of US have a strong narrative and are changing the way
many children learn and teachers teach. Hakim hopes that The
Story of Science ’s narrative will do the same thing. Hakim’s
goal in The Story of Science series is to encourage
reading–especially nonfiction reading– which is the essential
skill of the Information Age. To find a story in a subject is to
discover its essence. If we can get our children to write story-
centered nonfiction, they'll have to research, do some critical
thinking, and organize and use their tho