Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by
Helaine Becker
illustrated by
Dow Phumiruk
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Macmillan
Imprint
Henry Holt
ISBN
9781250137524
Awards and Honors
2020 Silver Birch Award Express Nominee
2019 Cook Prize Winner
2019—2020 Red Clover Award Nominee
MRLS Cream of the Crop - 2019
ILA Teachers' Choices - 2019
CSMCL Best Books - 2018
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From Katherine's earlybeginnings as a gifted student to her heroic accomplishments as a prominentmathematician at NASA, this is the story of an American icon who notonly calculated the course of moon landings but, in turn, saved lives.
More about Katherine Johnson. Sources. Full-color illustrations were created digitally in Photoshop with scans of watercolors and textures.
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Details
Format
Page Count
40
Trim Size
11" x 9"
Dewey
510.92 B
AR
4.2: points 0.5
Lexile
710L
Genre
Nonfic
Scholastic Reading Counts
3
JLG Release
Sep 2018
Book Genres
Topics
Katherine G. Johnson (1918– ). Biography. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials and employees. US mathematicians. African American women mathematicians. Apollo 13.
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