My Life with the Lincolns, Gayle Brandeis
My Life with the Lincolns, Gayle Brandeis
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My Life with the Lincolns

Author: Gayle Brandeis

Narrator: Emily Janice Card

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/09/2010


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather

However long it took me to read this --- is time that I will never get back! :-/ While I absolutly LOVED the main story line about the civil rights movement, there was little else that I did like. I felt like it was a pointless read. Not to mention, there are several references that may make a young......more

Goodreads review by Lucy

This book is juvenile fiction which makes for a quick read. When I took my son to the library last week, I saw it on a display shelf and because of my renewed interest in good old Abe (thanks to "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter"), I picked it up. Last night I was in the mood for light reading so I s......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

As a 30+ year old man, the storyline of the civil rights movement was intriguing, and the creativity in bringing the past (1800's) to the present (1966) was interesting. However, I was not impressed with the continued references to the "coming of age" storyline. I should have read the fine print tha......more