Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
by Katherine Johnson
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- 3-8
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- African American
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Year Published 2019
Word Count 44,090
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1040L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 504200, 8 AR Points
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- African American women mathematicians--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Juvenile literature
- Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
- Johnson, Katherine G
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- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Johnson, Katherine G.--Juvenile literature
- African American women
- African American women--Biography--Juvenile literature
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- Women mathematicians
- African American women mathematicians
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