A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
by Karen Hesse • Book 15 of the Dear America Series
Newbery Medal winner Karen Hesse's Civil War diary A LIGHT IN THE STORM is now back... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1999
Word Count 29,310
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 850L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 32207, 4.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Fiction
- Delaware
- Slavery--Fiction
- Islands
- Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction
- Lighthouses--Fiction
- Diaries
- Lighthouses
- Juvenile fiction
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- History
- Slavery
- United States
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
- Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction
- Islands--Fiction
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction
- Diaries--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Lincoln, Slavery, the Civil War
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