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Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Young Michelle grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a close-knit family. She loved school, achieving A's, and worked hard to blaze trails at the universities of Princeton and Harvard. Then, at the beginning of her legal career, she met Barack Obama. As first lady, she used her platform to advocate for women and girls and continues to inspire many with her powerful voice, and best-selling books. This empowering book features stylish and quirky...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In just a few generations, Michelle Obama's family has blazed a path from a slave cabin to the White House. She's now writing a new chapter in history as a fresh kind of first lady, old-fashioned in many ways, yet so genuine and natural that she constantly surprises and inspires.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama.
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged...
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the first African American first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has had a big role to fill. Readers will follow Obamas journey from her childhood in Chicago to her work as a lawyer and her achievements in the White House. They will also learn how she helped with her husbands political career and helped him win presidential elections in 2008 and 2012.
Series
Publisher
Dotdash Meredith
Language
English
Description
From her youth on Chicago’s South Side to her years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as America’s First Lady, Michelle Obama showed the world how to lead with kindness and grace. Revisit the glorious, historic era of the Obama White House--and the many roads traveled to get there--in LIFE Michelle Obama, a photo-filled biography and Special Edition featuring beautiful images and discerning text from the editors of LIFE. Follow Michelle’s journey
...Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what do...
Author
Publisher
Sellers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
For six administrations, Clarke designed the flowers and decorations for state dinners, planned the floral arrangements for the first family's private living quarters and weddings. She describes the inside story of her remarkable life at the White House, working with each first lady to help her find her own personal style for state dinners and holiday festivities.
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In many ways the world has never seen a First Lady like Michelle Obama. From the precedent of her race to the singularity of her style, she has been the object of immense fascination. What she says, what she does, and not least, what she wears, is scrutinized around the world. -- Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama--many never before seen--coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First Ladies in history, known for her grace, spirit, and beauty, as well as for the amazing work she did during her tenure to promote girls' education, combat childhood...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the First Lady of the United States, from her childhood in Chicago and her career as a lawyer to her marriage to Barack Obama and her initiatives in the White House.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Offers biographical information on the American first ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing insight into their early lives, time in the White House, and lives after their husbands left office.
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