- Assassination, Body snatching, D.C. Washington Civil War, 1861-1865, Fiction
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Ann Rinaldi
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 299
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Harcourt Paperbacks, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613182294
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“I KNEW THINGS were going to be bad when I heard the knock on the door early that morning.”
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