Torchlight
By: Carol Otis Hurst
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780618276011
Subjects: Irish Americans; Schools; Juvenile fiction; History; Friendship; Prejudices; Fiction
Description: In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.
Notes: "Walter Lorraine books."