Abe Lincoln at Last!: A Merlin Mission

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This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
    Text copyright © 2011 by Mary Pope Osborne
Jacket art and interior illustrations copyright © 2011 by Sal Murdocca
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Osborne, Mary Pope.
Abe Lincoln at last! / Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Magic tree house ; #47)
“A Merlin Mission.”
Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89877-8
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction.
4. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Fiction. 5. White House (Washington, D.C.)—Fiction.
6. Presidents—Family—Fiction.] I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.O81167 Ab 2011 [Fic]—dc23 2011017350
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For Mary Sams

Not often in the story of mankind does a man
arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who
is hard as rock and soft as drifting fog.…

—Carl Sandburg



Prologue
    O ne summer day in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, a mysterious tree house appeared in the