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New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young readers the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War, illustrated by Tim Robinson.

A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
A Beacon of Freedom Award Winner

Get the feeling something big is about to happen? Welcome to the Civil Warone of the scariest, saddest, and occasionally wackiest stories in American History.

1856: Northern and Southern settlers attack each other in Kansas.
1858: Congressmen start sneaking guns and knives into the Senate chamber.
1860: President James Buchanan is heard wailing, I am the last president of the United States!

Unraveling a very complicated string of events--the small things, the personal ones, the big issues--Steve Sheinkin takes r

Two Miserable Presidents

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      Publisher Square Fish
      Published 22 September 2015
      ISBN-13 9781250075789
      978-1250075789
      ISBN-10 1250075785

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young readers the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War, illustrated by Tim Robinson.

      A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
      A Beacon of Freedom Award Winner

      Get the feeling something big is about to happen? Welcome to the Civil Warone of the scariest, saddest, and occasionally wackiest stories in American History.

      1856      : Northern and Southern settlers attack each other in Kansas.
      1858: Congressmen start sneaking guns and knives into the Senate chamber.
      1860: President James Buchanan is heard wailing, I am the last president of the United States!

      Unraveling a very complicated string of events--the small things, the personal ones, the big issues--Steve Sheinkin takes r

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