Pub Date: March 1, 2005
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2004054038
Lexile Code: 0520
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 12 to UP
Physical Info: 1.10" H x 6.90" L x 4.40" W ( 0.50 lbs) 374 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Historical | United States 19th Century | Girls and Women | Westerns | Diversity and Multicultural | Social Themes | Prejudice and Racism | Violence | Animals | Pets | Places | Mexico
Series: Great Episodes
Description: Sent to live with her uncle after her own mother's death, Emily realizes that the mother of her friend is one of John Wilkes Booth's accomplices in the assassination of President Lincoln.
Brief description:
ANN RINALDI is an award-winning author best known for bringing history vividly to life. A self-made writer and newspaper columnist for twenty-one years, Ms. Rinaldi attributes her interest in history to her son, who enlisted her to take part in historical reenactments up and down the East Coast. She lives with her husband in central New Jersey.
Review Quotes:
Rinaldi has woven two interesting plots here into a fine coming-of-age historical novel....Makes readers feel as if they are living in history.--Booklist
Fast-paced and dramatic, with a wealth of interesting background information....Impressive.--Publishers Weekly
Deliciously macabre.--The Bulletin