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	Slade, Suzzane. A COMPUTER CALLED KATHERINE New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. IL K-3 ISBN     9780316435178
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Katherine Johnson, an African American female mathematician, is the perfect example of persistence to make change. Katherine had a passion for numbers and her intelligence and hard work placed her in the top of her class. As a young student, she skipped grades and began college at the age of 15. She landed a job at a Virginia research center, where she excelled with calculations, advocated for her right to attend meetings with male engineers, eventually landed a job with the NASA space program. Katherine’s persistence and dedication helped pioneer America’s first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world’s first trip to the moon. This beautiful illustrated biography in honor of Katherine includes a historical timeline and notes from the author and illustrator. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021)
	SUBJECTS:   United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.                         African American women mathematicians.                         Employees.                         Women mathematicians.                         United States.                         Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.                         Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.

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