A Light in the Storm: The Diary of Amelia Martin

A Light in the Storm: The Diary of Amelia Martin

By
Karen Hesse
Karen Hesse
1999 • 208 pages

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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