TY - BOOK AU - Hesse, Karen. TI - A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 T2 - Dear America SN - 0590567330 AV - PZ 7 .H436 1999 .H436 1999 U1 - [Fic] PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Inc. KW - Lighthouses KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Delaware KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - United States KW - lcgft KW - Diary fiction N1 - 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."; Intended for young readers N2 - 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 ER -