An Acquaintance With Darkness

By Ann Rinaldi

Subjects: Physicians, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, assassination, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 12, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Assassination, Washington (d.c.), fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Body snatching, D.C. Washington Civil War, 1861-1865, History, Reading Level-Grade 10

Description: Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of whom she can trust.