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Title Katherine Johnson / by Thea Feldman ; illustrated by Alyssa Petersen.
Author Feldman, Thea, author.
Publication Info. New York : Simon Spotlight, 2017.
©2017
Book Cover
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  J B JOHNSON    Checked Out
 Alafaya  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
 Eatonville  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
 North Orange  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
 South Creek  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
 Southeast  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
 Winter Garden  J B JOHNSON    Check Shelves
Edition Simon Spotlight edition.
Description 47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series You should meet
Ready-to-read. Level 3, Megastar reader!
Note At head of title: You should meet.
Contents A family to count on -- Math, Katherine's number one love -- A "computer" in a skirt -- Katherine takes off! -- An infinite contribution.
Summary Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
Audience Age 6-8.
Subject Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature.
Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine, 1918- -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature.
Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
Subject ocls african american juv bio
Added Author Petersen, Alyssa, illustrator.
ISBN 9781534403413 (hardcover) : $16.99
1534403418 (hardcover)
9781534403406 (paperback)
153440340X (paperback)