Title: Torchlight
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.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Juvenile fiction, Prejudices, Fiction, Schools, Friendship, History, Children's fiction, Irish americans, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Schools, fiction, Massachusetts, history, fiction
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: 19th century