Abraham Lincoln

by Elizabeth Raum, Oxford Designers and Illustrators (Illustrator)

Overview

This biography examines the life of Abraham Lincoln. The book includes biographies of other historical people and a family tree.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484610848
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	American Biographies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	22 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Raum has written over two-dozen nonfiction books for young readers, including a biography of Louis Armstrong for Capstone Press. Over the years, she has worked as a middle school and high school English teacher, an elementary school librarian, and a college library director. Elizabeth Raum has written many nonfiction books for children. Two of her Capstone You Choose books, Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure (2011) and Can You Survive Storm Chasing? (2012), are Junior Library Guild selections. Elizabeth lives in Michigan with her husband, Richard.

Table of Contents

Lincoln Today 4

Country Boyhood 6

Store Clerk and Soldier 12

Settling in Springfield 16

Stirring a Nation 20

Freeing the Slaves, Saving a Nation 28

The Happiest Day…and the Saddest 36

A Nation Remembers 40

Timeline 42

Family Tree 43

Glossary 44

Find Out More 46

Index 48