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A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin /

Hesse, Karen.

A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin / by Karen Hesse. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 1999. - 169 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Dear America .

"Amelia Martin is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction"--Copr. p.

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.

0590567330 (alk. paper)

98049204


Lighthouses--Fiction.
Islands--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.


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

PZ7.H4364 / Li 1999