My Life with the Lincolns

My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A. B. E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew.

Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination, her mother from insanity, and herself--Willie Lincoln incarnate--from death at age twelve.

Apart from that, the summer of 1966 should be like any other. But Mina's dad begins taking Mina along to hear speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr in Chicago. And soon he brings the freedom movement to their own small town, with consequences for everyone, in Gayle Brandeis's My Life with the Lincolns.

Author: Gayle Brandeis
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 03/16/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780805090130

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136598 / My Life with the Lincolns


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2010 pg. 120
Kirkus Review - Children 02/15/2010
Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 78
School Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 152
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2010
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 pg. 331 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Gayle Brandeis is the author of the novels for adults, The Book of Dead Birds: a Novel and Self Storage. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Salon.com and The Nation. She teaches and lives in Riverside, California with her family.

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