Catalog Search Results
81) Laura Bush
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of the former Texas librarian and teacher who, as the wife of the forty-third president, became first lady in 2001.
87) Abigail Adams
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles a woman who is remembered for her intellectual accomplishments, belief in womens' rights, and support of her husband, John, who became the second president of the United States.
89) The Obamas
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as the Obamas try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A biography of the wife of the sixteenth president of the United States, discussing her upbringing, marriage, her role in Lincoln's political career, and the tragedies that marred her life.
95) Barbara Bush
Author
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of former first lady Barbara Bush that profiles her childhood, education, and dedication to literacy, and describes the events that brought her to the White House.
96) Dolley Madison
Author
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of former first lady Dolley Madison, profiling her her childhood, education, and marriage, and describing the events that brought her to the White House and her life after her husband's presidency.
Author
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt that profiles her childhood, education, marriage, and volunteer work, and describes the events that brought her to the White House and her life after her husband's death.
Author
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of former first lady Martha Washington that profiles her childhood and marriage, and describes the events that brought her to the White House and her life after her husband's presidency.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south lawn, to representing America as the first female delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor rarely kept a second of her life for herself -- and she wouldn't have had it any other way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2011, Michelle Obama said, "There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made." Since leaving the White House, she has continued to live by those words. Readers explore the most current examples of her activism, but they also take a look into her past to see how her impressive educational and professional background made her a unique and historic First Lady. Detailed sidebars, vibrant photographs, and annotated...