An Acquaintance With Darkness

By Ann Rinaldi

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

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.