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Author Slade, Suzanne, author.

Title A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon / written by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 510.92 Slade Com 2019    Available  ---
Edition First edition.
Description 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Educational level group: edu School children
Educational level group: edu Kindergartners
Educational level group: edu First grade students
Educational level group: edu Second grade students
Educational level group: edu Third grade students
Age group: age Children
Author: National/regional group: nat Illinoisians
Illustrator: National/regional group: nat Pennsylvanians
Gender group: gdr women
age Children
Audience Age 4-8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
The inspiring story of mathematician Katherine Johnson - made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures - who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon! Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others - as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses - as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at fifteen, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon! Award-winning author Suzanne Slade and debut artist Veronica Miller Johnson tell the story of a NASA "computer" in this smartly written, charmingly illustrated biography. -- From dust jacket
Audience 760L Lexile
Sentence length: 3 (medium) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader LG 4.3 0.5.
Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine G.
African American women scientists -- Juvenile literature.
African American women scientists.
African American women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women mathematicians.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians.
United States.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans.
Employees.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Biographies.
Added Author Jamison, Veronica Miller, illustrator.
ISBN 9780316435178 (hardcover)
0316435171 (hardcover)
9781713706502 (FollettBound)
1713706504 (FollettBound)
9780316435161 (ebook)
9780316470711 (library edition ebook)
9780316511315
9780316511322