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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
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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...
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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.
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[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Photographs and text adapted from "New York Times" articles trace Barack Obama's journey from his birth in Hawaii, through his political career in Chicago and his primary and presidential campaigns, to his inauguration in 2009.
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2021.
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"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
8) Tiger Woods
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2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces the life and accomplishments of champion golfer Tiger Woods.
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[2008]
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Annette Gordon-Reed tells the legendary story of the Hemingses of Monticello, an American slave family with direct blood ties to the American President Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed vividly describes the relationships between Jefferson, his mistress, slave Sally Hemings, and the rest of the Hemings family.
10) Barack Obama
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c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A brief biography of African-American president Barack Obama.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
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Remnick's major contribution to the river of Obama books is a sharply honed work of "biographical journalism" unique in its multiplicity of perspectives, contextual richness, and astute analysis of the president's "political, racial, and sentimental education." A Pulitzer Prize winner and editor of the New Yorker, Remnick draws on hundreds of interviews to convey the challenges Obama faced in the forging of a self and recognition of a calling. In...
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2017.
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Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts....
15) Barack Obama
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of United States President Barack Obama.
16) Barack Obama
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the life and career of Barack Obama, discussing his accomplishments, and describing how his actions have impacted the history and development of the United States.
20) Tiger Woods
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Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the talents, successful career, and ethnic background of the golfer Tiger Woods.
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