This book is about two young girls that move into the White House when their mom gets elected president. They don't like it because they always have a bodyguard following them around and the place is always so crowded but they do like chef Tony's food. Then, Borden, the son the the precedent president of the United States, tells Annie and her sister that he already slept in Abraham Lincoln's bedroom and that he was visited by his ghost that night. After, they want to sleep in it too to see if they would get visited by the Lincoln ghost, so, knowing that their mom would say no, they ask their dad, which tells them to ask their mom who says no. At dinner, later that day, their mom asks their uncle Matt if he would like to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom and he says yes. The girls are so mad that he could when they couldn't that they try to sabotage it. To do that, they try to create a ghost to scare Matt out of the bedroom. It is not easy to do considering that both their bodyguards keep an eye on them and their babysitter at home. Will they be able to pull it off without getting caught???
I think the message of the story is not to handle problems or bad situations of the wrong way. I think it is the message because after Matt accepted to sleep in the bedroom, instead of going to him and the president to explain how they felt, they acted out of jealousy, rage and vengeance.
I can connect to the story because when I went ti Switzerland, I skied in a competition and I was the only one in my group to make it in the right timing on my third day. There was someone else in my group that had been trying for weeks to win it and was jealous so he tried to make me trip and fall down all day and every time, he ended up falling when I avoided his traps. I can also connect to this book because every time my brother dose me a bad joke, I try to get my revenge even if most of the time, he doesn't notice it or I end up trapping myself.
In the book, I've noticed that Annie and her sister never get in trouble because they wanted to hurt someone but because they wanted to help someone or simply reacting of the wrong way in a bad situation. I think they also get in trouble because they want attention from their mom since she is never there, they don't like living in the White House and honestly, I can understand where they're coming from. I have also noticed that they handle things on their own because, as I said earlier, their mom is never there for them and when she is, she is stressed and distracted.
