Otto Bookstore
A Booklover's Paradise in the Heart of Downtown Williamsport
107 W. Fourth St.
Williamsport, PA 17701
570-326-5764, 1-888-762-4526
HOURS:
Monday through Friday, 9 to 8
Saturday, 9 to 6
Sunday 1 to 4
Hi, this is Betsy from Otto’s. In Patricia Polacco’s new book about the Civil War she adapts her story for the young reader who wants some fantasy added to their history. In Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln, two boys visit the Harper’s Ferry Civil War Museum with their grandmother. After bragging to the curator how they blew away 400 Rebs, playing their Battle of Gettysburg video game, they try on some real uniforms and suddenly find themselves, back in time, at the Battle of Antietam. They see the battlefield called the Cornfield where 23 thousand were killed or wounded in just one day of fighting. They listen to Lincoln expressing doubts about the war and what it’s costing the nation. Then they show him a Lincoln penny and tell him that one day a black man will be elected president! Just in time, Lincoln resolves to see the struggle to the end and issues the Emancipation Proclamation. Share history with your young person, reading Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln. You’ll find it at Otto’s, a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport. |
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