A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
by Suzanne Slade and Veronica Miller Jamison
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- Grade
- PK-5
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
- African American
Year Published 2019
Word Count 1,022
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 760L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 504022, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Math
- Science
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- African American women mathematicians--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Mathematicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine G
- Women mathematicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science
- Mathematicians
- Officials and employees
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- African American women mathematicians
- Women mathematicians
- Lists With This Book
- Moon Landing
- Impacts of Computing K-5
- Black History Biographies
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Best STEM Books, 2017-2023
Selection, 2020
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Selection, 2020
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