Dear America: The Light in the Storm (Hardcover) by Karen Hesse

from nancynova

Seventeen year old Amelia is the only child of the assistant lighthouse keeper and his wife. He tends the Fenwick lighthouse in 1861, just as the Civil War breaks out. Delaware is a "border state", so tensions run high even within families. Her father is an abolitionist, something that her mother...

from thornton37814

***SPOILER ALERT: This review will contain spoilers.*** Amelia Martin is the 15-year-old daughter of the assistant lighthouse keeper off the coast of Delaware as this diary begins in late 1860 and continues through 1861. She turns 16 in the book She keeps the first watch at the lighthouse.Delawar...

from sgerbic

Reviewed Sept 2007 Every time I pick up one of these books I'm amazed at how well researched they are and how quickly they grip you. As per usual the reader is thrown into the life of a girl, this one living in a border state at the beginning of the civil war. Apparently her story is based on a r...

from BookishRuth

Part of the popular Dear America series, A Light in the Storm chronicles a year in the life of a 16-year-old girl at the start of the Civil War. Amelia Martin begins her diary in the final days of 1860. Amelia is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper on Fenwick Island, Delaware. The reader experien...

from justagirlwithabook

I don't remember much of these books as individual books, but I remember reading them all as a young, avid reader. I think that ultimately these books are the reason why I love historical fiction novels so much. They all did such a great job of taking me to a different time and place and making i...