A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin (Dear America)

by Karen Hesse

Hardcover, 1999

Tags

NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, History, Life, History-Life-and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8), History Life, & Culture in the Americas

Genres

Collection

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (1999), Edition: 1st, 174 pages

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.

Subjects

Awards

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2000)
Great Reads from Great Places (Delaware — 2002)
Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!) (Delaware)

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1999-09

Pages

174

Physical description

174 p.; 7.75 inches

ISBN

0590567330 / 9780590567336

DDC/MDS

813

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