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[2009]
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1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom of $200,000. The story shows how important this beloved President remained to public so unprepared for his violent death in 1865.
64) After the rain
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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108 p. : ill ; 20 cm.
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In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
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119 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
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Recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of the race relations and politics of the time.
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When sparky and independent Mary Todd arrives in Springfield, Illinois, in the 1840s to live with her sister, who is determined to find Mary a husband, she is astonished to find herself drawn to an awkward, melancholic lawyer with a gift for oratory. The two share ambition, an obsession with politics-- and a need to be suitably married off. Always at Lincoln's side, however, is the charming Joshua Speed, a shopkeeper who became his mentor in society,...
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"Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, thirteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters...
72) Abraham Lincoln
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Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
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Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.
73) Presidents' Day
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Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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24 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 19 cm.
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Simple text explains why and how we celebrate Presidents' Day and how the holiday evolved from celebrating the birthdays of presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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Instant New York Times bestseller!
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement-and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old...
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Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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[44] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.
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Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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48 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
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Uses the life of Abraham Lincoln as a reference to examine the history and everyday life of the United States from the unrest leading up to the Civil War through Reconstruction.
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Our 1846 war with Mexico was a blatant land grab provoked by President James Polk. And while it secured the entire Southwest and California for America, it also exacerbated regional tensions over slavery, created the first significant antiwar movement in America, and helped lead the nation into civil war. A Wicked War is the definitive history of this conflict that turned America into a continental power. Amy Greenberg describes the battles between...
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