Hesse, Karen.

Dear America: 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. .

"Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861" --Cover. "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.

ISBN: 0439445574

LCCN: 98049204

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Lighthouses
Islands
Slavery
Diaries

LC Class. No.: PZ7.H4364 / Li 1999