My Life with the Lincolns

Gayle Brandeis

Feb 2010 · Penguin Random House Audio · Kuchazwe ngu-Emily Janice Card

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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 tasks 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.

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When award-winning author Gayle Brandeis was a teenager, she wrote an essay that was one of three included in the Centennial time capsule of the Statue of Liberty. This is her first novel for children. Visit Gayle online at www.gaylebrandeis.com.