Acknowledgments
I must say thank you to all the third, fourth, and fifth graders who listened to the progression of Brianna’s story and gave me the encouragement to keep working to bring this character to life. To Mrs. Lewis’s students at E. L. Norton Elementary School in Gwinnett County, Georgia; to Mr. Southworth’s students at Virginia Shuman Young Elementary in Fort Lauderdale; and to Mrs. Oullette’s students at John Young Elementary, thank you for listening and sharing your ideas (and eating many, many cupcakes as “Brianna” tested out her recipes).
Thank you, Julie Scheina. You stepped in and worked like a powerhouse to get this manuscript prepped and ready for surgery. It was my pleasure working with you on the final leg of President, and I appreciate your effort.
Without Jennifer Hunt’s vision and leadership, President of the Whole Fifth Grade would have been a vastly different novel. Thanks, Jen, for your candor and insight. (And for letting me work with Julie Scheina.)
And thank you to my daughters, Lauren and Kenya, who continually provide me with ideas for young minds on the go!
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Contents
Welcome
Dedication
1: Declaration of Independence!
2: “The Redcoats Are Coming…”
3: War!
4: Victoria Woodhull for U.S. President!
5: Beware the Dark Horse!
6: Vote for Brianna! Sweet Justice Pick Me
7: The First Attack!
8: “A Chicken in Every Pot!”
9: A Spy!
10: Intolerable Acts of the Fifth Grade
11: The Race Is On
12: Uncommon Sense!
13: Teddy Roosevelt, First President to Fly in Airplane
14: Ask Not What the Fifth Grade Can Do for You… but What You Can Do for a (Certain Sneaky, Creepy, Weaselly) Fifth Grader!
15: The Real Benedict Arnold!
16: A Political Race!
17: Playing Dirty
18: From Cold War… to the Heat of Battle!
19: “We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!”
20: “If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen!”
21: Lewis and Clark: Expedition into the Forbidden Woods!
22: President John Quincy Adams Caught Swimming Naked
23: Baby Ruth: More Than a Candy Bar!
24: Tricks and Traps!
25: “I Am not a Crook!” Says Nixon
27: “The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself.”
28: From Boom to Bust… to Busted?
29: Abraham Lincoln, Report to the Battlefield
30: This Is for All the Marbles!
31: The Era of Good Feelings or the New Deal?
32: “A Day That Will Live in Infamy!”
33: “President Obama Can Leap Tall Buildings…”
34: John Quincy Adams Kept Silkworms as Pets.
35: The Minutemen
36: Rosie the Riveter at Your Service!
37: A Patriot
38: The Era of Reform
39: … With Liberty and Justice for All!
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Copyright
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Sherri Winston
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