A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
- ISBN-10
- 0439555353
- ISBN-13
- 9780439555357
- Series
- A Light in the Storm
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-11-01
- Author
- Karen Hesse
Description
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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