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Who Was Katherine Johnson? Juvenile Fiction Disability Family - Siblings Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND KIRKUSRead all about how a young Black girl who loved numbers grew into a brilliant mathematician who helped land the first person on the moon in this inspiring addition to the Who Was? series. From a very young age, Katherine Johnson counted everythingthe number of dirty dishes she'd washed, the steps she walked to church, and even the number of leaves on the trees. By 1928, she was so intelligent and skilled at math that she was able to skip several