My life with the Lincolns

By Gayle Brandeis

Subjects: Sixties (20th century), Family life, fiction, Families, Civil rights movements, Inequality, Family, Historical fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Illinois, fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, Jewish Americans, Civil rights workers, Twelve-year-old girl, Civil rights movements, fiction, Integrated schools, Juvenile fiction, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, fiction, History, Jews, Family life

Description: In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.