Birdie's Lighthouse

by Deborah Hopkinson

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The diary of a ten-year-old girl who moves with her family in 1855 from a town on the Maine coast to rugged Turtle Island where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper.

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700L - wordy. Life for a 10 year old girl and her parents who go to care for the lighthouse. She must keep the light going when a storm comes up, a boat is near, and dad is ill.

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Deborah Hopkinson is the author of over 40 highly acclaimed nonfiction books, including NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor and Jane Addams Honor Book Shutting Out the Sky: Carter G. Woodson Honor Book UP Before Daybreak; Sibert Honor Book and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist Titanic: Voices from the Disaster: Sydney Taylor Notable Book show more Courage Defiance: Dive!; D-Day; Sydney Taylor Notable Book We Has to Be Brave; and We Must Not Forget. Deborah lives with her family near Portland, Oregon. show less

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Children's Books
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .H778125 .BLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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