As a multi-generational book for third-graders through senior citizens, this story presents the first ten years of the life of Barack Obama. In that time, he experienced: (1) Growing up without his father in the Hawaiian island culture with his maternal grandparents and his mother; (2) moving with his mother to Indonesia as a kindergartner to live with his step-father; (3) experiencing a culture with a new language, new foods, new ways of living, and (4) returning to Honolulu to enter 5th grade at the prestigious Punahou School, where he did not fit in because his life in Indonesia taught him sports and school and lifestyle that didn't match what was enjoyed by the American kids. As one retired university professor put it: "Everyone ought to read this book, regardless of political persuasion. I'm a Republican, so I know what Republicans should read."