Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers

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A book to read, share, and talk about with the adults in your life, this is a call to action and compassion, and hope for change in uncertain times, and in a scary world. This was the tail end of the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago. The Cubs weren’t bad, but they weren’t great, either. I’d sit on my dad’s lap in his recliner and listen to him narrate how the Cubs were playing or why Billy Williams, who lived just around the corner from us on Constance Avenue, had such a sweet swing from the left side of the plate. Outside the ballparks, America was in the midst of a massive and uncertain change. The Kennedys were dead. Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed standing on a balcony in Memphis, setting off riots across the country, including in Chicago. The 1968 Democratic National Convention turned bloody as police went after Vietnam War protesters with batons and tear gas in Grant Park, about nine miles north of where we lived. White families, meanwhile, were moving out of the city to the suburbs, drawn by the promise of better schools, more space, and probably more whiteness, too.

From her early years of marriage, and the struggle to balance being a working woman, a wife, and the mom of two daughters, Michelle Obama details the shift she made to political life and what her family endured as a result of her husband’s fast-moving political career and campaign for the presidency. She shares the glamour of ball gowns and world travel, and the difficulties of comforting families after tragedies. She managed to be there for her daughters’ swim competitions and attend plays at their schools without catching the spotlight, while defining and championing numerous initiatives, especially those geared toward kids, during her time as First Lady. Puffin started out as a non-fiction publisher, with its first title appearing in 1940. As the most iconic and well-known children’s book brand in the UK today, we are always on the lookout for innovative ways to tell the world’s favourite stories and for brilliant new debut talent and brands that connect with today’s young readers, from newborn up to twelve years old. A brilliant, open, fascinating read, which I think some of our older students will thoroughly enjoy. Mich hat Michelle Obama schon seit ich jünger war fasziniert. Schon damals als sie Fist Lady der USA war und auch danach. Denn sie setzt sich für wichtige Themen in der Welt ein. Andere würden sich damit niemals auseinandersetzen. Deshalb bewundere ich sie.

A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a new introduction from Mrs Obama herself* O fracasso é um sentimento muito antes de se tornar um resultado real. É um sentimento de vulnerabilidade misturado com insegurança e tornado ainda mais forte pelo medo. “ Biografien lese ich normalerweise eher gar nicht, aber an "Becoming Michelle Obama" kam ich jetzt einfach nicht mehr dran vorbei. Michelle Obama ist für mich schon jahrelang eine faszinierende Frau gewesen - nach diesem Buch hat sich das Empfinden nur noch verstärkt. Sie ist nicht nur eine ehemalige First Lady, sie ist ein Vorbild für viele Menschen auf der Welt und das aus gutem Grund. Warum? - das werde ich im Laufe meiner Beurteilung beschreiben anhand von Beispielen aus dem Geschriebenen. When she was already at the top of her life, Michelle tried to keep it as normal as possible, especially when she wanted her two girls to grow up like normal children. It's heart-warming seeing how many times she had to sacrifice time between being a good mother to her daughters and being the First Lady to influence for a real change.

Ich war unglaublich gespannt auf dieses Buch da ich bereits so viel Gutes über die „Originalfassung“ gehört habe – und ich wurde nicht enttäuscht. No prefácio, Michelle comenta que espera que, enquanto lemos a sua história, pensemos também na nossa e, ao longo da leitura, dei por mim a refletir em alguns episódios que me foram marcando.

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For eight years, I lived in the White House, a place with more stairs than I can count— plus elevators, a bowling alley, and an in-house florist. I slept in a bed that was made up with Italian linens. Our meals were cooked by a team of world- class chefs and delivered by professionals more highly trained than those at any five-star restaurant or hotel. Secret Service agents, with their earpieces and guns and deliberately flat expressions, stood outside our doors, doing their best to stay out of our family’s private life. We got used to it, eventually, sort of— the strange grandeur of our new home and also the constant, quiet presence of others. A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a new introduction from Mrs Obama herself That is what a control freak learns in college, maybe above all else. There are simply other ways of being. Now adapted for younger readers, with new photographs and a new introduction from Michelle Obama herself, this memoir tells a very personal, and completely inspiring, story of how, through hard work and determination, the girl from the South Side of Chicago built an extraordinary life. To my friend that is a elementary teacher: Michelle discs her second grade teacher, we all have had one, at least, teacher that didn't do us justice. But you aren't that person. You are that teacher that goes over and above for a student, and they will always remember that, too.