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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Description
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey-first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the author's bestselling beginning reader Barack Obama: United States President.
Author
Publisher
Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers.
For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential reading. Mendell, who covered Obama for the Chicago Tribune, had far-reaching access to the Chicago politician as Obama climbed the ladder to the...
9) Tiger Woods
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A biography of the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, from his childhood in California to his development as one of the best known personalities in professional golf.
11) Barack
Author
Publisher
Collins/Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingly successful funeral parlor business. Their wealth afforded the Harlestons the comfort of chauffeurs, tailored clothes, and servants whose skin was darker than theirs. It also launched the family into a generation of glory as painters, performers, and...
18) A promised land
Author
Description
"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Whitman Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"This book was prepared to document the campaign of Barack Obama. It includes a wide variety of promotional materials used in the campaign along with cartoons, advertisements, magazine cover, and other popular-media materials that provided commentary and publicized Obama's campaign"--T.p. verso.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President charts how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of the most effective power players in the United States.
There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, yet her personal story also represents the best of America. Morain introduces us to the fast-rising prosecutor, who became the first Black female attorney general in California...
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