Great Episodes: An Acquaintance with Darkness (Paperback)

from countrylife

Ann Rinaldi doing what she does so well - historical fiction for young adults. It is the spring of 1865 in Washington D.C., where 14 year old Emily Pigbush has just lost her mother. Now an orphan, her father having died in the civil war, she plans to live with her friend, Annie, and help out with...

from countrylife

Ann Rinaldi doing what she does so well - historical fiction for young adults. It is the spring of 1865 in Washington D.C., where 14 year old Emily Pigbush has just lost her mother. Now an orphan, her father having died in the civil war, she plans to live with her friend, Annie, and help out with...

from Whisper1

Many thanks to countrylife for recently recommending this very interesting book. I've read a number of Ann Rinaldi's books, some are good, others fall flat. This one is worth the time and effort spent reading. Using the backdrop of Washington, DC at the turbulent time of the end of the Civil war,...

from EmScape

Rinaldi incorporates an incredible amount of historical fact into her novel of a young girl living in Washington D.C. at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. Emily, our protagonist, claims Annie Surratt, daughter of the first woman ever hanged by the United States Government, as her bes...

from afyfe

Good, quick read. This book is a combination of actual events and a fictional story. The interesting part of it is that some of the historical facts are little known (for example, some of John WIlkes Booth's friends and their families) so you come out of the book actually learning something new a...