Fun Facts At six feet four inches tall, Abraham Lincoln was the tallest President. Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, was from Kentucky. People did not think Lincoln was a handsome man. When a little girl named Grace Bedell wrote him a letter saying he should grow a beard, he did! Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Sequence Text Features Glossary Captions Illustrations Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14388-X ì<(sk$m)=bedi h< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U by Kristin Cashore In this book you will read about Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was President of the United States. Vocabulary tradition enslaved shelter independence Write to It! Write about something you feel strongly about. Explain your feelings clearly so that others will understand. Write your paragraph on another sheet of paper. by Kristin Cashore ISBN: 0-328-14388-X Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd). Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York Opener: ©Hulton Images, 2 ©The Granger Collection