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1) Tiger Woods
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and accomplishments of champion golfer Tiger Woods.
2) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
4) Barack Obama
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of African-American president Barack Obama.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When David asks his mother about the man on television, she tells him the story of Barack Obama, discussing his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, his parents' divorce, and his desire to help others.
7) Barack Obama
Author
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of United States President Barack Obama.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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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...
16) Tiger Woods
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the talents, successful career, and ethnic background of the golfer Tiger Woods.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Barack Obama, the forty-fourth president of the United States, discusses his childhood, political career, and election, and places his life in historical context.
19) Barack Obama
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the forty-fourth president of the United States.
20) A princess found: an American family, an African chiefdom, and the daughter who connected them all
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the efforts of an adopted woman to track down her biological parents, her astonished discovery that she is the daughter of a Sierra Leone prince, and her emotional journey to better understand herself, her father, and the African chiefdom she could someday claim.