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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when hermother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
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Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all...
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all...
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 5
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Square Fish ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kitty decides to run for president of the Neighborhood Cat Association.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Canine Country Day School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 16
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Babymouse decides to become president of the student council, she learns that there is more to running for office than being famous and in charge.
Author
Series
Chet Gecko mystery volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chet Gecko and his partner, Natalie Attired, try to find out who is sending threatening notes to Viola Fuss, candidate for student council president at Emerson Hickey Elementary School.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Yes! It's almost here. And the big question is: Who will be our next president? Will our leader be a he or a she? A young citizen gives her take on politics and Election Day in this charming story, told in the style of Clement C. Moore's holiday poem."--Provided by publisher.
11) Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
12) Where I belong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--
2018. Guatemalan-American high school senior Milagros "Millie" Vargas has lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her parents sought asylum there when she was a baby. Now a citizen, Millie cares for her younger siblings...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dora tells her grandson of how, in 1887 Argonia, Kansas, a group of men who thought women should not vote or hold office put a woman on the ballot as a joke. Includes a note about Susanna and a cake recipe.
15) Homeland
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
17) Belles
Author
Series
Belles volume 1
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008], c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Duck, tired of farm work, holds an election to unseat Farmer Brown, and after winning follows his political ambition all the way to the White House where he discovers the job of president is a lot of hard work.
19) Interference
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016. ©2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Kate Hamilton is a congressman's daughter, used to the world of Washington politics, but after some pictures of her cause a mild scandal, she finds herself exiled to her aunt's West Texas farm and animal shelter, in the district where her father is planning to run for office--and then she discovers that politics in a small town can be even nastier than Washington, especially when it involves the local high school football team.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. HERE, RIGHT MATTERS is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House , and the decisions leading up...
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