5 Best nonfiction books like Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama by Ashley Woodfolk

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Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

By: Ashley Woodfolk

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama by Ashley Woodfolk , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Michelle Obama: A Life

By: Peter Slevin

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Slevin's Michelle Obama: A Life book and Ashley Woodfolk's Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

By: Michelle Obama

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Michelle Obama has quickly become one of the most influential and respected women in America. This … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

3. Who Is Michelle Obama?

By: Nancy Harrison , John O'Brien , Megan Stine

3.56

Format: 256 pages,

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from P… read more

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4. Michelle Obama: Speeches on Life, Love, and American Values

By: Michelle Obama , Stacie Vander Pol

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Michelle Obama has quickly become one of the most influential and respected women in America. This … read more

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5. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

Similar categories in Kindra Neely's Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting book and Ashley Woodfolk's Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

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  • audiobook
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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7. The Well

By: Jake Wyatt

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A fantasy graphic novel about Lizzy, a girl who gets cursed by a wishing well, and her adventure to… read more

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"You don't become wealthy unless you care about money. And you don't stop caring about money just because you're rich."

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

"People like to say that hard work makes you rich. That isn't true. But if you like the work, and it keeps you and yours fed and warm, it can make you happy."

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

"Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to know that people seldom want what's good for them. Or anyone else, for that matter."

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

"Courage is doing what is right and necessary, regardless of peril. Your parents were brave. Your grandmother was brave. Endangering yourself or others for the sake of wealth? Risking lives for a chan…"

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

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8. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that im… read more

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  • audiobook
"Being good was slippery. It didn't stay still; it moved around, and not only that, sometimes it meant exactly opposite things. Like, there were times when being good meant speaking up, but other time…"

-Ellen Oh, You Are Here: Connecting Flights

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10. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Ashley Woodfolk's Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

  • audiobook
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11. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

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  • audiobook
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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12. The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Last Beekeeper follows twelve-year-old Yolanda Cicerón as she fights to the save the last known… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Wade in the Water

By: Nyani Nkrumah

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, and set around richly developed characters, this ri… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Survive the Dome

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs up his came… read more

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  • audiobook
"It's not justice when the courts play in favor of the accused."

-Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

"It takes so little experience to become a cop. But that's the trick, isn't it? Most cops aren't old enough to hold other people's lives in their hands, and yet we trust them with exactly that."

-Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

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15. The Atlas of Us

By: Kristin Dwyer

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Artifacts of an Ex

By: Jennifer Chen

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Chloe Chang gets dumped via USPS after moving across the county from NYC to LA, her first inst… read more

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  • audiobook
"Your face right now is pure joy. Watching you study art is worthy of any painting in a museum."

-Jennifer Chen, Artifacts of an Ex

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17. The First Rule of Climate Club

By: Carrie Firestone

4.26

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader starts a podcast on climate activism and rallies her friends to create lasting cha… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Go High: The Unstoppable Presence and Poise of Michelle Obama

By: M. Sweeney

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Believe in the America that reaches higher. Go High is a photographic collection of First Lady M… read more

Similar categories in M. Sweeney's Go High: The Unstoppable Presence and Poise of Michelle Obama book and Ashley Woodfolk's Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

By: Ashley Woodfolk

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Woodfolk's Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama book and Ashley Woodfolk's Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama

  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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20. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Deer Run Home

By: Ann Clare LeZotte

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language. This heart-filled story… read more

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