An Unlikely Friendship

A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

Fiction - YA, Historical, Kids, Teen, Social Issues
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Author: Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 9780547351537
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication: November 1, 2008
Imprint: HMH Books for Young Readers Language: English
Author: Ann Rinaldi
ISBN: 9780547351537
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication: November 1, 2008
Imprint: HMH Books for Young Readers
Language: English

A “fascinating” novel that brings the relationship between the First Lady and an African American seamstress to life (VOYA).
 
On the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, wants desperately to speak to her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley. But the guards keep her away. They have no idea that the First Lady shares a close friendship with a black dressmaker . . .
 
How did these two women—one who grew up in a wealthy Southern home and became the wife of the president of the United States, the other who was born a slave and eventually purchased her own freedom—come to be such close companions? This fictionalized dual biography delves into the childhoods of these two fascinating women who became devoted friends amid the turbulent times of the Lincoln administration.
 
“Both personalities are well drawn, with real anxieties and emotions.” —School Library Journal

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A “fascinating” novel that brings the relationship between the First Lady and an African American seamstress to life (VOYA).
 
On the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, wants desperately to speak to her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley. But the guards keep her away. They have no idea that the First Lady shares a close friendship with a black dressmaker . . .
 
How did these two women—one who grew up in a wealthy Southern home and became the wife of the president of the United States, the other who was born a slave and eventually purchased her own freedom—come to be such close companions? This fictionalized dual biography delves into the childhoods of these two fascinating women who became devoted friends amid the turbulent times of the Lincoln administration.
 
“Both personalities are well drawn, with real anxieties and emotions.” —School Library Journal

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