Lesa Cline-Ransome
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The young man known as Teach secretly learned to read, write, and use numbers growing up alongside the master's son. And although on this Southern plantation these are skills he can never flaunt, Teach doesn't keep them to himself: In the course of a week, he'll teach little ones the alphabet in the corner stall of a stable and hold a moonlit session where men scratch letters in the dirt. He'll decipher a discarded letter bearing news of Yankee soldiers...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"-- Provided by publisher....
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At one point, the word "computer" referred to the people who used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines and paper to calculate complex equations needed for space travel. As one of these mathematicians at NACA's Langley laboratory, Katherine Johnson's skills were in high demand and she was trusted by administrators and astronauts alike to be accurate and reliable.