Hesse, Karen

IN 1860 AND 1861, WHILE WORKING IN HER FATHER'S LIGHTHOUSE ON AN ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF DELAWARE, FIFTEEN YEAR OLD AMELIA RECORDSIN HER DIARY HOW THE CIVIL WARE IS BEGINNING TO DEVASTATE HER DIVIDED STATE.

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.

Rifka and her family have fled Russia's brutal treatment of the Jews for a new life in America, But the path to freedom is full of terrible obstacles- her family must leave without her.