A light in the storm :

Hesse, Karen.

A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin / by Karen Hesse. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 1999. - 169 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. - Dear America .

"Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861"--Cover.

School Library Journal Booklist Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.)

In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

5.6 Follett Library Resources 5-8

0590567330 (alk. paper)

98049204 /AC


Lighthouses--Fiction.
Islands--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Lighthouses--Fiction.
Islands--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction.
Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Delaware--History--Fiction.
United States--History--1861-1865, Civil War--Fiction.

PZ7.H4364 / Li 1999

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