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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meehan, a career thief staring at life without parole, is awaiting sentencing at the Manhattan Correctional Center when he is called to a meeting by someone masquerading as his lawyer. The man, it turns out, represents the presidential re-election campaign committee -- now finding itself in need of a little professional help. So they "outsource" Meehan in return for a walk from all pending criminal charges. All he has to do is steal a compromising...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
, 2007, 1995
Language
English
Description
An English boy discovers his father is not his real father, that he is the son of a saxophone-playing, former Rhodes scholar who was at Oxford with his mother and who is now running for the U.S. presidency. The boy flies to the U.S. and the novel describes everyone's efforts to avoid a scandal.
7) Dead heat
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
With a world war brewing and president James MacPherson completing his second term, the United States Secret Service races against time to stop a terrorist group from assassinating a presidential candidate.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After finding out there has never been a female U.S. president, Grace decides to run in her school's mock election, where she learns about the American electoral system and sets out to be the best person for the job even though her opponent, Thomas, seems to be winning all the boys' votes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An idealistic young woman finds working a political campaign can be murder in this romantic suspense novel by "a master storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). Young Erin Hartsock arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition--and little interest in politics. However, when she's offered a position on a congresswoman's campaign for the Senate, she's more than happy to flee her dead-end job to take on what she expects will be boring administrative work . . ....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In his brilliant second novel, Dermot McEvoy sweeps his readers into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by...
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