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    Barack Obama: Out of Many, One

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    Author Shana Corey
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    $4.99 US
    RH Childrens Books | Random House Books for Young Readers
    6"W x 9"H x 0.15"D  
    On sale Aug 11, 2009 | 48 Pages | 9780375863394
    Grades 6-8
    Reading Level: Lexile 580L | Fountas & Pinnell M
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    It's election season! Children who are ready to read on their own will want to get ready for the nextpresidential election with this leveled reader about the first African American president of the United States!
     
    A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama—revised to include an account of his reelection and new photographs! With clear and accessible language, independent readers can learn how the lessons and love from Obama’s mother and grandparents shaped him; how the places he lived influenced him; and how he turned his childhood feeling of being an outsider into a positive driving force that propelled him into the history books!
    Shana Corey is the author of the Step into Reading books Boats (Step 1), Monster Parade (Step 2), and Paul Revere’s Ride (Step 3) as well as You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer, Milly and the Macy’s Parade, Players in Pigtails, and Mermaid Queen (Scholastic). She was a Publishers Weekly Flying Start Author in 2000. She lives in Brooklyn. View titles by Shana Corey

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    It's election season! Children who are ready to read on their own will want to get ready for the nextpresidential election with this leveled reader about the first African American president of the United States!
     
    A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama—revised to include an account of his reelection and new photographs! With clear and accessible language, independent readers can learn how the lessons and love from Obama’s mother and grandparents shaped him; how the places he lived influenced him; and how he turned his childhood feeling of being an outsider into a positive driving force that propelled him into the history books!

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    Shana Corey is the author of the Step into Reading books Boats (Step 1), Monster Parade (Step 2), and Paul Revere’s Ride (Step 3) as well as You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer, Milly and the Macy’s Parade, Players in Pigtails, and Mermaid Queen (Scholastic). She was a Publishers Weekly Flying Start Author in 2000. She lives in Brooklyn. View titles by Shana Corey

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