Hesse, Karen

A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin

Place_Pub: New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1999. 167, illus., maps, minor sticker residue on front board. 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. This fictionalized diary is part of the Dear America series. Condition: very good.

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, Sectarian Violence, Family Relationship, Border States, Fenwick Island, Lighthouse, Historical Fiction, Civil War

ISBN: 0590567330

[Book #52542]

Price: $15.00