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Product Description
In addition to the usual senior year worries—college applications and Josh, her first serious boyfriend—Meg had to live up to what was expected from the President’s daughter. She had to suppress her sense of humor and watch the way she dressed and spoke. And she had to try to have a normal relationship with Josh despite intrusions by reporters and secret service agents who followed her everywhere.
Then, just when everything was already so difficult, a shocking attack on her mother makes life in the White House even more impossible. Meg, her father, and her two younger brothers find they must turn to one another for solace and support—while her mother’s life hangs in the balance.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #549878 in Books
- Published on: 2008-07-22
- Released on: 2008-07-22
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .63" h x 5.56" w x 8.32" l, .51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Meatier than the well-crafted, believable The President's Daughter, White's sequel continues to chronicle events about the family of Katherine Powers, first woman President of the U.S. Meghan (Meg) is 17 and, with her younger brothers Steve and Neal, endures life in the spotlight while trying to carry on normally in private at home. Madame President and First Gentleman Russell are respected and she's doing well until a psycho wounds her seriously. Unsure whether she will recover, Russell and the children suffer severe traumas that they express in their own ways while relying on each other for solace and support. The media are more of a burden than ever; the author clearly delineates the effects of unremitting assaults as well as the Powerses' dignified ways of handling them. Apart from its novelistic merits, the book prompts thought on the burdens of public office, the need for character in the elect and their families.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9 Meg is the daughter of the first woman President of the United States (elected in The President's Daughter Avon, 1984). Her life is complicated by the ever-present Secret Service men and by the demands on her by the media and the White House photographerbut for the most part, she appears to have the same interests as other girls her age, including a boyfriend. But the attempted assassination of her mother, which seriously injures the President, shocks Meg out of her comparatively thoughtless existence to the realization that being in the public eye can threaten not only the character of family life, but even life itself. Dialogue among the family members is realistic. A pleasant, nondemanding book with a slightly different twist. And everybody recovers. Susan F. Marcus, Pollard Middle School Library, Needham, Mass.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
“Apart from its novelistic merits, the book prompts thought on the burdens of public office, and the need for character in the elect and their families.”—Publishers Weekly
“These are situations under which Meg has no control; it’s a harsh reality of her life, and of anyone’s life, that sometimes our choices are narrower than we’d like.”—A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
