An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. 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 eve...

By Ann Rinaldi
Age Range: 10 - 12 years
Grade Level: 5 - 7
Lexile Measure: 740L
Hardcover: 243 pages
Publisher: Harcourt; 1 edition (January 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0152055975
ISBN-13: 978-0152055974
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 3131227
Format: PDF Text TXT book

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This book was a surprise for me. I never knew Mary Todd, had such a strong friendship and support from her dressmaker a slave. She helped Mrs. Lincoln at her most desperate time after the death of her husband.

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