A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
by Hesse, Karen
Series:Dear America
DangerHistorical FictionU.S.American/U.S. HistoryIslandsEnslaved PeopleLighthousesNCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies
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AR Book Level
5.3
AR Points
4
Word Count
29,310
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
32207 EN
About this book
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.