Barbara Bush Dies – level 1
23-04-2018 15:00
Barbara Bush is the First Lady to President George H. W. Bush. She is also the mother of US President George W. Bush. She is the only woman to see her husband and her son become US presidents.
Barbara works during her husband’s presidency. She meets world leaders. She fights for rights for all people. She fights to help people learn to read and write. She helps the poor.
She also shocks people. She says that one day maybe a woman can be president.
In Houston, Texas, Barbara Bush dies at the age of 92.
Difficult words: First Lady (the wife of a US president), presidency (the time that you are a president), rights (that all people are respected, protected from bad people).
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