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| name          = Assassi
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| image         =Assassin book.jpg
| caption = The cover of Assassin
| author        = [[Anna Myers (novelist)|Anna Myers]]
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = Historical novel
| publisher     = [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]]
| pub_date      = February 2006
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| media_type    = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages         = 212 pp
| isbn =  0-439-86621-9
| oclc= 66391279
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'''''Assassin''''' is a [[historical fiction]] novel by the children's author [[Anna Myers (novelist)|Anna Myers]].

==Plot summary==
The book begins with the story of Arabella "Bella" Getchel, who was taken to Washington city after her mothers death to live with her grandmother,  where she was taught to sew and was hired as a seamstress at the White House. However, her true passion was acting and wanted to one day become an actress. Bella got another job at Ford's Theater. She was later taken hostage by [[John Wilkes Booth]], the assassin of former President [[Abraham Lincoln]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |url=http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln75.html |publisher=rogerjnorton.com |accessdate=2007-12-28}}</ref> during the assassination at [[Ford's Theatre]] itself.

Wilkes, in the book's second chapter, mentions that he likes to be called by his last name. The book continually switches between the two stories, as Bella builds a friendship with a character named Steven and Wilkes. The friendship between Wilkes and Bella was merely a trap so he could get her to look for him in the theatre, where he locks her in a closet so she cannot stop him from assassinating the President.

==Footnotes==
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[[Category:2006 American novels]]
[[Category:American historical novels]]

[[Category:1865 in fiction]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 1860s]]
[[Category:Fictional depictions of Abraham Lincoln in literature]]


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