Barack Obama: Out of Many, One

written by Shana Corey and illustrated by James Bernardin

This biography is part of the "Step Into Reading" series, and is classified on their scale as Level 3 (Reading On Your Own). The first half of the book covers Obama's childhood and gives facts about his life that kids can relate to.

The pictures are vivid and colorful, and some appear to have been done from photographs. The book focuses on Obama as a person rather than as a politician, and does not go into much depth on his political ideas (as a children's book probably shouldn't!)

This book does contain some fairly sophisticated vocabulary and sentence structure, along with full paragraphs of text. I would recommend this book for 3rd grade and up because of these features, but it could be read to 1st or 2nd graders if definitions and explanations were given.