Full name: A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

Author: Suzanne Slade Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316435161 9780316435178 0316435163 0316435171

The inspiring true 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 Jamison tell the story of a NASA "computer" in this smartly written, charmingly illustrated biography. Similar books: Otis and Will Discover the Deep by Barb Rosenstock Mesmerized by Mara Rockliff Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark A Weed Is a Flower by Aliki The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky Marvelous Mattie by Emily Arnold McCully Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis Electric Ben by Robert Byrd Dangerous Jane by Suzanne Slade The Tree of Life by Peter Sis Fearless Flyer by Heather Lang Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh Ben Franklin's Big Splash by Barb Rosenstock Secret Engineer by Rachel Dougherty Of Numbers and Stars by D. Anne Love What Color Is My World? by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull