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A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 /

Hesse, Karen.

A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 / by Karen Hesse. - first edition. - New York : Scholastic Inc., 1999 - 169, [5] pages : illustrations ; 20cm. - Dear America . - Dear America. .

Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861"--Cover. Fictional diary of a young girl at Valley Forge during the winter encampment of 1777-1778.

Includes historical note and "Epilogue: Life After the Diary."

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.

Intended for young readers.

0590567330 9780590567336

9849204


Lighthouses--Juvenile fiction.


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


Diary fiction.

PZ 7 .H436 1999 / .H436 1999

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