Growing Up to Be Mayor

Growing Up to Be Mayor
Author: Lee P. Brown
Publisher: Bgi Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2013-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615806075

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"Growing Up To Be Mayor" is the inspiring true story of Dr. Lee P. Brown, the first African American Mayor of Houston. Born to migrant farm workers in rural Oklahoma, Lee's family is forced to leave the Oklahoma dust bowl and move to California where they hope a better future awaits them. At only five, Lee had survived The Great Depression. No stranger to hard work, Lee works along with his whole family picking grapes, cotton, potatoes, melons ... the family must make a living. The opportunity to go to school and learn to read transforms Lee's life. Lee works his way through college and eventually earns four degrees. From a beat cop with the San Jose, California Police Department, Lee is selected to serve as Atlanta's Commissioner of Public Safety. Later he serves as U.S. Drug Czar in President Clinton's Cabinet and then is elected as the first African American Mayor of Houston, Texas. "Growing Up To Be Mayor" not only tells the story of one of our living legends, but also encourages children to accomplish their own American dreams.

Mayor Pete

Mayor Pete
Author: Rob Sanders
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250791383

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Get to know Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a first-of-his-kind candidate running for a one-of-a-kind office, in Rob Sanders' inspiring picture book biography, featuring illustrations by Levi Hastings. When Pete Buttigieg announced he was running for president, he became the first openly gay candidate to run for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination and the first millennial ever to pursue the office. But before the nation knew him as “Mayor Pete,” he was a boy growing up in a Rust Belt town, a kid who dreamed of being an astronaut, and a high schooler who wondered about a life of public service. Without a doubt, no one could have imagined who Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, the boy who lived in a two-story house on College Street, would become. Through victories and defeats, and the changes that the seasons bring, the young boy from South Bend grew into a man devoted to helping others. Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg celebrates the life of an American who dared to be the first and who imagined a better world for everyone. A Who Did It First? Book

Growing Up Fast

Growing Up Fast
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312422233

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"Tells the life stories of ... six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were all enrolled in the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ... They shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed postindustrial landscape of Pittsfield."--Jacket.

Hacerse Mayor

Hacerse Mayor
Author: Susan Meredith
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages:
Release: 1999-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613900263

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The Mayor of Jackson Heights

The Mayor of Jackson Heights
Author: CARY. SILVERSTEIN
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977213686

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This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientists, and business leaders called it home, playing stickball in its streets and handball in its schoolyards. The roster of alumni is impressive; it includes comedians John Leguizamo and Don Rickles, NASA scientist Dr. Willey Ley, shock jock Howard Stern, actor Mercedes Ruehl, rock musician Gene Simmons of KISS-and me, Cary Silverstein! Join me as I share stories of my youth, my family, and of why growing up in Jackson Heights had such a profound impact on my life and the lives of others.

Hard Stuff

Hard Stuff
Author: Coleman A. Young
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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His life abounds in colorful anecdote and abrasive repartee. When he was harassed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, his response was: "I consider the activities of this Committee as un-American.

Growing up Grady

Growing up Grady
Author: Joanne Grady Huskey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1664196730

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Capturing the tales of growing up as the eldest of five children in her large Irish Catholic family, the author shares humorous and joyful moments recollected in her colorful Grady clan. Her narrative recaptures those childhood days of freedom and fun, creativity and simplicity, that many may have lost in our increasingly hurried and hectic lives.

Growing Up Brown

Growing Up Brown
Author: Karen Luther
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1602669945

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Growing up in a Christian home during the 1970s and 1980s was not always easy. But the Brown family depended on God's grace to overcome racism, low self-esteem, bullies, and an out of wedlock pregnancy. (Christian)