Cline-Ransome, Lesa. COUNTING THE STARS

Cline-Ransome, Lesa.
COUNTING THE STARS
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]
IL K-3
ISBN 9781534404755 

You many not have heard of Katherine Johnson but without her, we would not have made it to the moon. Katherine was born in 1918 in West Virginia. As an African American, she could never believe that she would someday work for NASA. She was very smart and graduated at 15. Then she was able to get a scholarship to West Virginia University -- the first African American woman to attend the school. Her ability in math helped her through the years. But her greatest accomplishment may have been her time in the space program.