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The lighthouse keeper's daughter

the remarkable true story of American heroine Ida Lewis
2010
Tells the story of Ida Lewis, a woman who began tending the Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island, at the age of fifteen in 1857 after her father had a stroke, and is credited with saving at least eighteen lives during her forty years of service.

The lighthouse children

1996
When an old lighthouse keeper and his wife leave their seaside home, they find a way for their old friends, the seagulls, to find them.

The littlest lighthouse keeper

2008
Henry, a mouse that lives in a lighthouse, finds friends who are willing to help when the keeper is called away, leaving Henry in charge.

The lighthouse keeper

2000
Peter O'Banyon's life changes forever when his family is killed in an accident and he is sent to live with his uncle and learns the secret of keeping love and hope alive.

Abbie against the storm

the true story of a young heroine and a lighthouse
2002
A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.

The lightkeeper's daughter

2002
When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.

The bravest woman in America

the story of Ida Lewis
2011
Provides a biography of nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis who made her first rescue at age sixteen and won awards for her life-saving efforts over the years.

Women of the lights

1996
Chronicles the lives of women who lived and worked in lighthouses, braving seas and storms, rescuing people from icy waters, and lovingly caring for their lights.

The keeper's son

2003
In 1941, Coast Guard patrolman Josh Thurlow, still struggling with guilt seventeen years after the disappearance of his younger brother, battles U-boats off the North Carolina coast unaware that one of the German captains may know his brother's whereabouts.

The littlest lighthouse keeper to the rescue

2010
Henry, a mouse who lives in a lighthouse, seeks help from a puffin and other animal friends to find the mother of a very hungry baby seal who was separated from her during a storm.

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