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Who Is Barack Obama?
By Roberta Edwards, Who HQ and John O'Brien
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As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the author's bestselling beginning reader Barack Obama: United States President.
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Who Is Barack Obama? - Roberta Edwards
Chapter 1
Born in Paradise
Hawaii is a group of islands that lie in the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii became a state in 1959, the same year as Alaska. The closest state to Hawaii is California, but they are more than two thousand miles apart.
The weather in Hawaii is beautiful all year long. Tropical flowers make the air smell sweet. There are palm trees and beautiful beaches. Even in the early morning, surfers are out riding the waves. They go surfing before school starts.
004005Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii. This is where Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961.
Barack’s first name means blessed
in Swahili, an African language. Barack was his father’s name, too. But neither of the baby’s parents called him Barack. He was always Barry.
Barry’s father was from Kenya, a country in Africa. He had come to Hawaii to study at the University of Hawaii. He met an eighteen-year-old girl who was a student there, too. She lived in Honolulu with her parents. Her name was Stanley Ann Dunham.
Why Stanley?
Stanley was her father’s name. He had wanted a boy. So he named his only child, Stanley. But she was known as Ann to her friends.
Ann and Barack met, fell in love, and got married. There is nothing unusual about that except this happened in 1961. Ann was white; Barack was black. Back then, very few people of different races decided to marry each other. In fact, in some states, it was illegal!
Ann’s parents were fairly open-minded people. They accepted their new son-in-law. He was smart and interesting. And they adored their chubby baby grandson. Little Barry grew up calling them Gramps and Toot. (In Hawaiian, tutu
means grandmother.)
In Hawaii, many people have brown skin, so Barry didn’t look or feel any different. At the beach, Gramps liked to fool tourists by saying Barry was the great-grandson of a famous Hawaiian
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