so you want to be president by judith st george

Reshmina helps a wounded American soldier, making her village a Taliban target.

She is keen to improve her English while her twin brother, Pasoon, is inspired by the Taliban and wants to avenge their older sister, killed by an American bomb on her wedding day. In the contemporary timeline, Reshmina is an Afghan girl living in foothills near the Pakistan border that are a battleground between the Taliban and U.S. Parallel storylines take readers through the lives of two young people on Sept. Even a few “non-presidents” are featured: Pat Nixon and Henry Kissinger watch (with future President Ford) President Nixon bowl in the White House lanes, and there’s a wonderfully wry glimpse of two “also-ran’s”-Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro-excluded from an across-the-centuries presidential reception by a velvet rope.Ī superb, kid-centered survey and a perfect way to enliven the perennial class unit on the presidents. There’s a helpful key to every illustration and a presidential chronology from Washington to Clinton. right.” Small’s ( The Huckabuck Family, 1999, etc.) pitch-perfect caricatures, rendered in a mix of watercolor, ink, and pastel, expand on the personalities and support the narrative’s shifting moods.

They have had the courage, spirit, and will to do. have asked more of themselves than they thought they could give. George encourages: “If you want to be president-a good president-pattern yourself after the best. At the close of this sometimes wry, sometimes sober survey (including impeachments, wars, and assassinations), St. ” she offers a pleasingly diverse slate of facts and figures for her readers’ consideration: age (the oldest-Reagan the youngest-Teddy Roosevelt), size (the smallest-Madison-at 100 lbs., contrasting with Taft, at over 300), career choices (generals, lawyers, haberdashers, farmers), first names (six Jameses, four Johns, four Williams, two Georges, two Franklins), education (nine presidents never went to college, while one-Andrew Johnson-“didn’t learn to write until after he was married”).

Reflecting on the “good things about being President and. George ( In the Line of Fire: Presidents Lives at Stake, 1999, etc.) uses the experiences of our 42 presidents to counsel youngsters harboring that uniquely American desire-to be president. Just in time for the presidential election, St.

So you want to be president by judith st george