To keep the South Manitou light

Description:

After her grandfather's death in the fall of 1871, twelve-year-old Jessie bravely helps her mother take care of the lighthouse her family has kept for generations on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, hoping that they will be allowed to continue to live and work there.

subjects: Lighthouses,  Fiction,  Courage,  Mothers and daughters,  History,  Lighthouses, fiction,  Parent and child, fiction,  Courage, fiction,  Michigan, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  FICTION

Places: Michigan,  South Manitou Island (Mich.)

Times: 19th century