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In this post, students will learn about Washington during the Civil War. During the war, Washington’s busy wharves were the focal point for moving people and supplies into and out of the city. Here the wounded from the Virginia battlefields were off-loaded from steamboats to await transpor
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a seventeen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Inspired by the stories of real 19th-century lighthouse heroines, this atmospheric book uses a diary format to shape a portrait of a brave and likable girl.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Joey was a ginger cat who really did go to sea with Alan Villiers on the ship Joseph Conrad.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
Reading Level:
High School,Adult
A full history of lighthouses, lightships, buoys, fog signals and the boats and people who tend them. including maps and photographs.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A picture book that describes the role of the lightship and its crew.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
While visiting a whaling exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Emma suddenly finds herself transported back in time to a nineteenth century whaling ship.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Told in graphic novel format, this is the story of Abbie Burgess, whose father was the lighthouse keeper of Matinicus Rock lighthouse. Abbie keeps the lighthouse operating during a fierce storm.
