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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly
The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he...
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
4) Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth president which focuses on the issue of slavery and the importance it had throughout Lincoln's life from his early days as a lawyer through his presidency.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Vietnam, she expresses intense anger in postcards which she writes to her idol, Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the Washington, D.C., Civil War years experienced by Vinnie Ream the sculptress, best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol building.