**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.