To keep the South Manitou light
By: Anna Egan Smucker.
Series: Great Lakes books
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Lighthouses -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Courage -- Fiction.; South Manitou Island (Mich.) -- Fiction.; Michigan -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After her grandfather's death in the fall of 1871, twelve-year-old Jessie bravely helps her mother take care of the lighthouse her family has kept for generations on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, hoping that they will be allowed to continue to live and work there.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125).