A light in the storm
Subtitle: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin
By: by Karen Hesse.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Dear America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Lighthouses -- Fiction.; Islands -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Delaware -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction.; Delaware -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: "Amelia Martin is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction"--Copr. p.