Ternyata jadi mata-mata itu sulit-bahkan ketika ketika kamu bukan mata-mata betulan. Itulah pengalaman Harriet M. Welsch. Gara-gara mencoba jadi mata-mata, tidak hanya tertangkap, dia juga dimusuhi teman-temannya. '
Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, a young learns that he shares his birthday with Abraham Lincoln, and even has the same big hands and feet. But Lincoln also had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.