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Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Despite the power and responsibility that comes with the oval office, the president of the United States is only human--and far from perfect. While some suffered just a few minor mishaps, others are remembered for leaving behind much bigger messes. In the newest installment in the Epic Fails series, explore the lives, legacies, and failures of some of our country's not-so-great presidents"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Learn all about US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and how she spoke out for civil rights. Engaging photos and easy-to read text take readers into her story. Plus, quick stats, key dates, and bolded glossary terms make it easy to zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Publisher's website.
43) Laura Bush
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Learn all about US First Lady Laura Bush and how she championed literacy programs. Engaging photos and easy-to read text take readers into her story. Plus, quick stats, key dates, and bolded glossary terms make it easy to zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Publisher's website.
44) Nancy Reagan
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Learn all about US First Lady Nancy Reagan and how she fought against youth drug use. Engaging photos and easy-to read text take readers into her story. Plus, quick stats, key dates, and bolded glossary terms make it easy to zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. "--Publisher's website.
47) The last orphan
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
48) The Rough Riders
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Series
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Theodore Roosevelt's bestselling memoir chronicling the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry and its victory at San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. Yearning to join the fight for Cuban independence in the Spanish–American War, Theodore Roosevelt and Col. Leonard Wood formed the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. They enlisted a motley crew from all walks of life, from cowboys and frontiersmen to Ivy League graduates. These 1,250 men became...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
50) The greatest presidential stories never told: 100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder & stupefy
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A collection of lesser-known presidential tales relates such accounts as Abraham Lincoln's saber duel, George Washington's whiskey business, and the Ronald Reagan movie that saved the fortieth president's life decades later.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents-a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
53) Vice
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
The story of Dick Cheney, the forty-sixth vice president of the United States, and how he quietly became the most powerful man in the world.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 15
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mr. Macky dresses up as Abraham Lincoln to get the students at Ella Mentry School excited about their Presidents' Day oral reports.
55) Never
Author
Description
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
56) An American life
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Ronald Reagan is an American success story. From modest beginnings in a small midwestern town to a distinguished career in films and television, he lived the American dream; as governor of California and as the century's most popular president, he embodied and revitalized the American spirit. Now in this dramatic and revealing memoir, Ronald Reagan recounts both his life and his beliefs with uncompromising candor and his familiar wit. He discusses...
Author
Description
"An intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama"--
Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources to tell the stories of the ten remarkable women who have defined the role of First Lady of the United States since 1960. From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, she offers new insights into this privileged group, and shares stories exploring...
60) Decision points
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 33
Description
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life while writing honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments.
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