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4.3/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date February 2006 ISBN 0-439-86621-9 Publisher Scholastic Corporation OCLC 66391279 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 212 pp Originally published February 2006 Genre Historical drama Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Similar Rosie's tiger, Tumbleweed Baby, Wart, Fire in the Hills, Red‑Dirt Jessie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assassin is a historical fiction novel by the children's author Anna Myers.
Plot summary
The book begins with the story of Arabella "Bella" Getchel, who was taken to Washington city after her mothers death to live with her grandmother, where she was taught to sew and was hired as a seamstress at the White House. However, her true passion was acting and wanted to one day become an actress. Bella got another job at Ford's Theater. She was later taken hostage by John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of former President Abraham Lincoln, during the assassination at Ford's Theatre itself.
Wilkes, in the book's second chapter, mentions that he likes to be called by his last name. The book continually switches between the two stories, as Bella builds a friendship with a character named Steven and Wilkes. The friendship between Wilkes and Bella was merely a trap so he could get her to look for him in the theatre, where he locks her in a closet so she cannot stop him from assassinating the President.