Sunday, November 14, 2010

"Letters From Vinnie" by Maureen Stack Sapley

I first took notice of this book due to my own friendship with a ‘Vinnie’.  I discovered the treasure of this book when I was in the process of searching the Internet for a particular biography of Abraham Lincoln.  The name ‘Vinnie Ream’ appeared, causing me to investigate and become astounded at a story I never before heard.  Who would have thought the tale of a teenage girl, during the Civil War years, sculpting a bust of President Lincoln was true?  But it is, and this fictionalized retelling of it is a wonderful tribute to a name more of us should know.

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