While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Amelia Martin is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction.
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Copyright © 1999 by Karen Hesse
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ISBN 0-590-56733-0
Hesse, Karen.
A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin / by Karen Hesse.
p. cm. — (Dear America)
Summary: 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.
1. Delaware —History—Civil War, 1861-1865 —Juvenile fiction. [1. Delaware —History — Civil War, 1861–1865 —Fiction. 2. United States —History—Civil War, 1861–1865 — Fiction.
3. Lighthouses —Fiction. 4. Islands —Fiction. 5. Slavery—Fiction. 6. Diaries —Fiction.]
I. Title. II. Series.
PZ7.H4364Li 1999
[Fic] —dc21 98-49204
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