num_pages: 48
description: Michael and Derek don't expect the adventure of a lifetime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother. But the mysterious museum keeper invites them to play a game and before they know it they're walking through a door straight into a very realistic depiction of 1863. They see the destruction at the battlefield of Antietam and even meet President Lincoln. Soon they start to wonder if it's really a game after all - and suddenly they're racing across Confederate-occupied land to return to their own time before it's too late. Patricia Polacco's time-travel premise is fascinating - who knew that history museums could literally be doorways into the past? She makes history exciting for young readers drawing them into a pivotal part of our nation's development.
language: English
title: Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln
publisher: Philomel Books