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Title	:	The President's Daughter (The President's Daughter #1)
Author	:	Ellen Emerson White
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 297 pages
Published	:	July 22nd 2008 by Feiwel & Friends (first published January 1st 1984)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Contemporary. Teen

The President's Daughter (The President's Daughter #1)

Ellen Emerson White

Paperback | Pages: 297 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 1649 Users | 235 Reviews

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Meg Powers’ life is turned inside-out when her high-profile Senator mother decides she’s going to run for United States President—and it only gets harder when she wins. This first book in a series does an excellent job depicting the insecurities and trials of adolescence as they’re magnified by having to endure them under constant public scrutiny. Meg is charming and funny, and her relationship with her mother is complicated in a very natural way; White shifts constantly between showing us a normal (if wealthy and privileged) American family and the First Family of the United States. The characterization is superb, and I really warmed to Meg and her brothers.

I admit I wasn’t sure at first if I’d like this book. I really, really don’t like it when people with very young children run for high political office—mothers or fathers. And Meg’s brother Neal is very young. The scenes where we saw the effect his mother’s political career had on him broke my heart. While it’s true that families have to make decisions that sometimes mean hardship for some or all of their members, the nastiness that is high-level politics can be brutal on children, no matter how well-meaning their parents or what measures they take to minimize it, and to me politics isn’t nearly important enough to do that to your children. Despite the frequent comments about how honest and smart and qualified Meg’s mother is to be President, we never in this first book really see her do anything that proves the sacrifices her family has made, is making, are worth it. So this was hard for me to get past. What did work for me was how well-drawn the family interactions were, how Meg and her brothers related to each other and to their parents. Their transition to living in the White House felt very believable, their reactions to the constraints of their new lives funny and touching. The family dynamic kept me interested enough to accept the story on its own terms.

Though politics informs the entire story, and President Powers is a Democrat, White never uses this to lionize one party over another or flog any particular issue; the closest we get to a political issues speech is Meg telling people at her new school how public education should be handled. It keeps the book from being off-putting to half its potential audience, and I admire that. I’m a little less enamored of how all the other politicians Meg’s mother runs against are either thorough villains or caricatures. That she’s also presented as “too honest” and honorable and so forth I find slightly unbelievable. It’s a nice idea, and while I believe there are politicians who strive for that ideal, I think the dishonest ones eat them for lunch. I kept waiting for Meg to find out her mother wasn’t as honest as she’d claimed, because that would have felt more realistic. But the story isn’t really about the politics so much as it’s about Meg and her life and how she connects to her mother, so while I find it unrealistic, I also think having Meg’s conflicts with her mother be about her mother’s honesty would have been trite. Far better to have the President being caught up in her own issues about having lost her mother when she was very young, and have Meg’s natural insecurities and need for parental reassurance be complicated by her resemblance to her mother and the ways people expect her to behave because of it.

I’m really very captivated by the story and I’m going to have to go round up the rest of the series now. Naturally my library doesn’t have it, so it’s off to make the rounds of my favorite online booksellers.

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Original Title:	The President's Daughter (The President's Daughter, #1)
ISBN:	0312374887 (ISBN13: 9780312374884)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The President's Daughter #1
Characters:	Meghan Powers
Setting:	Boston, Massachusetts(United States) Washington, D.C.(United States)

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This cover is cracking me up. Is she paralyzed? ...Not that paralysis is a joke.

I first read this when I was 12 or 13, and I've reread it many, many times since. Even though it's a young adult novel, it's a fantastic story with great characters. I don't think it's still in print, and that's a shame. There's a passage about the first woman running for president as a major party candidate that still gives me goosebumps every time.

This reminded me of books by Meg Cabot and Judy Blume. The writing and innoncence felt very Judy Blume to me while the topic reminded me of Cabot's All-American Girl. It definitely has a classic, comfort YA read vibe to it.I enjoyed the politics angle, especially while the mother was campaigning. I wish some of that could have been explored more. I was almost more intrigued by the mother's story than Meg's.I never really connected with Meg. I think that was because it didn't feel like Meg was

This was interesting to read, given that I wrote on the same subject for National Novel Writing Month several years ago. Whereas I imagined having a parent run for president would be a fun adventure, Ellen Emerson White clearly thought it would be hell on earth. Which is probably a little closer to the truth, but it wasn't very much fun to read about. I spent most of the book wanting to shake Meg by her bratty, impudent shoulders, which is probably a sign that I am old.

Meg Powers life is turned inside-out when her high-profile Senator mother decides shes going to run for United States Presidentand it only gets harder when she wins. This first book in a series does an excellent job depicting the insecurities and trials of adolescence as theyre magnified by having to endure them under constant public scrutiny. Meg is charming and funny, and her relationship with her mother is complicated in a very natural way; White shifts constantly between showing us a normal

I loved the entire 'The President's Daughter' series when I was a young teenager and they still hold a place in my heart.When I read the first book, George Bush Sr. was president. I was so wrapped up in reading "The President's Daughter" that when on the news I heard "And the president will speak now..." I ran out of my room so I could watch President Katherine Vaughn Powers' press conference. When George Bush was there, instead, I was crestfallen and so depressed! When I read these as a

Great book. It was a lot of fun to follow her through the Mothers presidential race.