A Light in the Storm The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
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Newbery Medalist Hesse pens the diary of a Union girl living in the divided state of Delaware during the explosive first year of the Civil War-a conflict mirrored in Amelia's struggle to keep her parents' disintegrating marriage together.
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