The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln
by Marissa Moss and Jeremy Holmes
A picture-book account of how Allen Pinkerton formed the first U.S. detective agency... read more
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- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Biography
- Mystery
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2018
Word Count 1,923
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 980L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 198040
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Law & Crime
- Detectives
- Private investigators
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884--Juvenile literature
- Detectives--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Pinkerton, Allan
- Private investigators--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 1
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Awards & Distinctions 5

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Biography Selection, 2019

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2019
Commended, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2019
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2019

Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees
Commended, 2019

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
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