Becoming

By Michelle Obama,

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michelle Obama’s worldwide bestselling memoir, Becoming, is now adapted for young readers.

Michelle Robinson was born on the South Side of Chicago. From her modest beginnings, she would become Michelle Obama, the inspiring and powerful First Lady of the United States, when her husband,…

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I greatly admire Michelle Obama and thought I knew her story. I didn’t. In this version of her memoir Becoming, adapted for young readers and full of engaging photos, she shares how her father’s multiple sclerosis marked her life: she was a young child when he first needed a cane, a freshman in college when he needed two, and a young professional in love with a man named Barack Obama when her father died. Though he never wanted his multiple sclerosis to limit his children’s lives—and it didn’t—her father’s illness may also explain Michelle Obama’s remarkable strength in the…

With authenticity and honesty, Michelle Obama uses her own life to inspire readers to challenge themselves, to be bold, and to determine who they really are and what they will become. From her modest beginnings on the south side of Chicago, to her early years of marriage, and her struggle to balance work and home, Michelle Obama details her life as the powerful First Lady of the United States, her marriage, and her role as mother. She makes “good trouble” by modeling how to lead others. By describing her process of Becoming, she challenges readers to accept themselves as…

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