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.
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