Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson posters A Bank Street Best Book

A Bank Street Best Book of the Year

She shares with them delicious pedas and jalebis

perfect for welcoming a baby to the party of life

Eventually Maya stops coming to school

” That’s enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye

Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson posters A Bank Street Best BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019This rich volume is a national treasure. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Captivating, informative, and inspiringEasy to follow and hard to put down. School Library Journal (starred review)The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11. As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several