Dear America: A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin /

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by Hesse, Karen.
[ 02. English Fiction ] Series: Dear America. Published by : Scholastic, (New York :) Physical details: 169 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subject(s): Lighthouses | Islands | Slavery | Diaries Year : 1999 02. English Fiction Item type : 02. English Fiction
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LM Montgomery Elementary School F HES Available

"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.