01209cam a2200301 4500 405458141 TxAuBib 20191207120000.0 981023s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98049204 9780590567336 alk. paper 0590567330 alk. paper TxAuBib Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin / by Karen Hesse. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1999. 169 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Dear America "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. 20191207. Islands Fiction. Slavery Fiction. Diaries Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Dear America.