Hesse, Karen. <br/><br/>
A light in the storm :  the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin / 
Karen Hesse. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  1999. 
 - 199 p. 
 - Dear America .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-590-56733-0 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction<br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction<br/>Lighthouses--Fiction<br/>Islands--Fiction<br/>Slavery--Fiction<br/>Diaries--Fiction