Author : Peter Roop
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761361723
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.
Author : Peter Roop
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Lighthouse keepers
ISBN : 9780329782306
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.
Author : Peter Roop
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761365559
Trapped by sea and storm . . . a girl must keep the lighthouse working. Matinicus Rock, Maine, 1856. Seventeen-year-old Abbie Burgess lives with her family on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. Her father, the lighthouse keeper, must clean and light the lighthouse lamps every day without fail. Otherwise ships could crash into rocks and sink. Abbie’s father leaves to buy supplies, but a storm hitsbefore he can return. Can Abbie keep the lights burning until her father returns?
Author : Marcia Vaughan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1582708886
The dramatic true story of a young heroine who operated a lighthouse during a terrible winter storm in her father's absence, saving countless lives out at sea. When seventeen-year-old Abbie Burgess and her family move to Maine where her father will be caring for a lighthouse, she is immediately fascinated by the lights. Abbie becomes her father's assistant, and when he is forced to make an emergency trip to the mainland, Abbie alone knows how to keep the lighthouse tower lit. Soon after he leaves, a massive storm arises, surging over the island and flooding their house. Will Abbie be able to care for her sick mother and younger sisters and make sure that the lighthouse guides ships safely through the treacherous waters? This fictionalized account of a young girl's triumph over a savage storm as well as her own fears, is based on an actual incident that took place in the winter of 1856. Gorgeously illustrated with powerful oil paintings, young Abbie will inspire readers to face all storms as bravely.
Author : Wanda Kay Knight
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781647648459
When Abbie waved good-bye to her father, she did not know that a storm was going to change everything. Her father was gone. Her mother was sick. The waters from the ocean were rising. How would Abbie keep everything together?
Author : Margaret K. Wetterer
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761365524
With the bridge out and a train on the way . . . a girl must get a warning to the station in time. Moingona, Iowa, 1881. Kate Shelley lives on a farm near Honey Creek with her mother and younger brothers and sisters. When a terrible storm makes the creek flood, the railroad bridge is washed out. Kate fears that the Midnight Express will crash into the raging waters. Kate sets out into the storm to give warning. Will she reach the station in time to stop the train?
Author : Candice F. Ransom
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761361960
In 1896, ten-year-old Sam Deal and Ginger, the wild horse he has tamed, assist an all-Black lifesaving crew as they attempt to rescue survivors of a shipwreck off North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Author : Marty Rhodes Figley
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761378081
On January 12, 1888, when a blizzard blows off the roof of their schoolhouse on what had been an unseasonably warm day in Nebraska, Sarah and Annie are roped together with the other children and led by their teacher out into the storm and, hopefully, to the safety of her house. Simultaneous.
Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761371796
Cave City, Kentucky, 1925. Young Arly Dunbar loves exploring caves with his grown-up friend Floyd Collins. When Floyd, exploring by himself, becomes trapped in Sand Cave, The entire town comes To The rescue. Can Arly find a way to help his friend?
Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761378065
Recounts in graphic novel format how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
