Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler (Time Twisters) Paperback – June 25, 2019

I’m a 5th & 6th grade social studies teacher and started getting these books to fill up my very small class library… the kids love this author. I have kids who won’t read books in their other classes and will come borrow them from me for reading time

The author of this book came to my school and talked about this book l bought it and l LOVE it so much

2nd grader loved this book.

My 9 year old loves this book. Great series altogether. It made him more interested in history. Well written. Length is perfect for 2-4 grade. Interesting topic.

It was a good story for kids who want to make learning history fun!

arrived as promised

I’ve been obsessed with Abraham Lincoln and his family since I was a kid; I can’t get enough of him and his wife, Mary Todd.In this delightfully imagined work, the fourth graders in Ms. Maybee’s class hate history. “It’s BORING!” Step-siblings Abby and Doc, especially Doc, are the loudest opponents of history. When Lincoln hear how much all the kids don’t like history, he decides to teach them a lesson.Thanks to time travel Lincoln shows up in current time to teach them a lesson. He’s decided that he won’t go back to Springfield, Illinois, to win the 1860 presidential election, but instead, he wants to pursue a different dream: that of becoming a pro wrestler. Wrestling was much, much different in the 1860s than it is today, and thankfully, Sheinkin doesn’t delve into that. But that means that history is broken if Lincoln pursues his dreamIt’s up to Abby and Doc to get him back to Springfield and fix history. As they learn about Lincoln and his life, they experience life in the 1860s and unwittingly learn about our greatest president ever.At the end of the book, Sheinkin adds a chapter that tells what aspects of the story are true and what are not. I think that young readers will enjoy history in this manner, and without meaning to, learn something. Even I learned something! Abraham Lincoln: Pro Wrestler receives 5 out of 5 stars in Julie’s world.

I had high hopes of using this as a read aloud book in my second grade class, but the quality of the writing is poor.