Katherine Johnson: Guiding Spacecraft

Borgert-Spaniol, Megan

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Just the Series: STEM Superstar Women

Series and Publisher: STEM Superstar Women

Annotation: Looks at the life and accomplishments of Katherine Johnson.

Genre: [Biographies]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #155290

Format: Library Binding

Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company

Edition Date: 2018 Release Date: 12/15/17

Pages: 32 pages

ISBN: 1-532-11281-5

ISBN 13: 978-1-532-11281-2

Dewey: 921

LCCN: 2017944050

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Johnson, Katherine G. Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine G.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
African American women mathematicians. Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians. United Stares. Biography. Juvenile literature.
African American women mathematicians.
Mathematicians.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book (Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2018)

Each volume provides a succinct overview of a trailblazing woman in STEM. The subjects' childhoods, education, numerous obstacles (many times because of their gender), and achievements are explained in readable prose. Archival photographs, sidebars, and fact boxes help to highlight each woman's importance in her field. Timeline. Glos., ind.

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Horn Book (Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2018)

Word Count: 2,560

Reading Level: 5.5

Interest Level: 3-6

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.5 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 193526 / grade: Middle Grades

Lexile: 840L

Guided Reading Level: S

Women have made some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. In this title, readers learn about mathematician Katherine Johnson from her early career as a human computer to her work putting the first man into space, the first man into orbit, and the first man on the moon. A timeline, sidebars, fun facts, glossary, and index supplement the text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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