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Slade, Suzanne.

Summary: Shares the story of how George Washington had a home built for the future presidents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 SLA

Summary: National Geographic follows Pete Souza, the President's photographer inside the Obama White House, aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Features intimate interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRE

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 47

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

Smith, Charles R.

Summary: Constructed brick by brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.302 SMI

Cat in the Hat

Summary: An Election Day reader finds the Cat in the Hat outlining laugh-out-loud campaign promises if he is elected president, including giving the Oval Office a more pronounced shape, replanting the Rose Garden with Seussian shrubbery and painting smiles on the somber portraits of historical leaders.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAT

Holland, Jesse J.

Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOL

Quirk, Matthew

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top-secret government facility buried deep underground--but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them. Assume the worst. Code Black. The day that every secret service agent trains for has arrived. The White House...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Sorry, no copies available

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Busby, Cylin

Summary: Told from the viewpoint of the First Cat of the White House, this clever picture book takes readers on a tour of this historic residence where they will find out who really runs things around there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUS

Mesnier, Roland

Summary: In this memoir and cookbook, Roland Mesnier, executive pastry chef to five presidents, tells the story behind each of the holiday gingerbread houses he created for display in the White House State Dining Room. Chef Mesnier also provides step-by-step instructions and templates for constructing and decorating a gingerbread house in the home kitchen. During the holidays, thousands of guests are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White House Historical Association 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5092 MES

Rush, Andre

Summary: "What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 RUS

Monkman, Betty C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White House Historical Association 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 975.3 MON

Summary: Headed by President Josiah Bartlet, demonstrates that office politics are the same everywhere; things just have greater repercussions when your office happens to be the White House. Stories surround the President; his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, recovering boozehound Leo McGarry, who sacrifices his marriage to his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WES

Summary: Follow the re-election of President Bartlet to his second term and some crises both during and after the election in this 22-episode fourth season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WES

Anderson, Beth

Summary: "Tad Lincoln's restless wriggle just wouldn't quit, much to the delight of his father, President Abraham Lincoln--if not so much to anybody else! This picture book brings to life the famous first son who coped with a disability and other challenges while showing compassion, intelligence, and wisdom beyond his years. Tad Lincoln's boundless energy annoyed almost everyone but his father,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Barnes, Peter W.

Summary: The rooms and furnishings of the White House are featured through the story of Woodrow G. Washingtail, a mouse who is elected President of the United Mice of America and moves into the historic mansion along with the people's president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VSP Books 1998

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BAR

Bauer, Stephen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAU

Berman, Lea

Summary: "A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message-- everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BER

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

Firestone, Mary.

Summary: Keneesha, a White House Secret Service agent, gives a brief history of the White House and describes the various functions held there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America Firestone

Palmer, Michael

Summary: The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the president's son Cam Hilliard, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss the troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray, whose job is to guard the president's family with her life, is convinced Cam's issues are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAL

Summary: Go inside and meet the dedicated men and women who are sworn to protect the President at any cost. Get an agent's-eye view of the daily challenges faced through the decades by Secret Service veterans, from keeping tabs on the president's children to dealing with the privacy of the First Family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INS

Summary: Follow the drama when the government is temporarily passed from a Democratic administration to the Republican Speaker of the House, as President Bartlet copes with the kidnapping of his youngest daughter Zoey.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WES

Hines, Gary.

Summary: Young Tad Lincoln is excited about the new national holiday until he learns that the cook plans to serve Jack the turkey as the main course for Thanksgiving dinner.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HIN

Tatum, Channing

Summary: While John Cale, a Capitol Policeman, is taking his daughter on a tour of the White House it is taken over by a paramilitary group, and it is up to John to save the president and his country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHI

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