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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)

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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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

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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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Originally posted here.I know the premise isn't that new - there have been several stories about daughters of US presidents before, although probably more in movies than in novels. This one is different because the presidential parent is a woman. I found Meg very believable as a character. She's smart, snarky, has a great sense of humor and tries to act like her mom running for president is no biggie. As if things aren't hard enough for her, she looks exactly like her mom. Although it's obvious

Originally posted here.Meghan Powers doesnt know what its like to have a normal mother. At least one she sees on a regular basis or whose current location is predictable. As a senator, Katharine Vaughn Powers spends much of her time in D.C., travels a lot making speeches and attending events, and is completely exhausted when she is home. At least Meg has her dad, works at a local law firm and is currently on good terms with her mother. Theres also Trudy, their housekeeper and her two younger

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.



I first read this book twenty years ago and thought it fitting to reread the series now, in light of the recent primaries, and in preparation for finally reading Long May She Reign.Maybe it's only because I've read it before, but I felt a bit frustrated by the first half of the book. Readers already know that Meg's mom is going to be the first woman president, so the campaign isn't suspenseful or surprising.That said, I like Meg. I always enjoy Ellen Emerson White's sarcastic, intelligent

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.

Okay, as I've said before, I LOVED these books! Probably my favorites this year. They're about . . . um, well, the president's daughter . . . the only daughter of the first female president. Meg is 15 when the books start and 18 in Long May She Reign (and there better be more!), and has two younger brothers.The first two started off a bit slowly. The author started them when she was in college and they're a bit rough, but still very readable. And I (maybe unfairly) struggled with the knowledge