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Keep The Lights Burning Abbie
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Book Synopsis Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by : Connie Roop
Download or read book Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie written by Connie Roop and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbie was afraid. She had never had to keep the lights burning by herself. But many lives depended on the lighthouse, and Papa was depending on Abbie. This is the exciting true story of Abbie Burgess, who in 1856 single-handedly kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a tremendous storm off the coast of Maine.
Book Synopsis Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by : Peter Roop
Download or read book Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie written by Peter Roop and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This quality production will allow early primary readers to enjoy the story while confirming their own reading ability."- School Library Journal
Book Synopsis Abbie Against the Storm by : Marcia Vaughan
Download or read book Abbie Against the Storm written by Marcia Vaughan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse by : Theresa Levitt
Download or read book A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse written by Theresa Levitt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the man who invented a new lighthouse lens, capable of shining brighter, farther, and more efficiently than existing light sources, and his fight against the scientific elite, his poor health, and the limits of his era's technology.
Book Synopsis Down East in the Ocean by : Peter Roop
Download or read book Down East in the Ocean written by Peter Roop and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clever counting book from the award-winning authors of Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, combines rhyme with a fun exploration of Maine sea life. Children will be singing it to themselves and asking for it to be read to them again and again.
Book Synopsis Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express by : Margaret K. Wetterer
Download or read book Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express written by Margaret K. Wetterer and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate stared at the rickety wooden bridge. There were boards loose on its narrow walkway. There was no railing to hold on to. She was afraid to cross this bridge even in daylight. But she had to cross it now. She had to get to the train station in time to stop the midnight express. When a heavy storm destroyed the bridge over Honey Creek, near Kate Shelley's home in Moingona, Iowa, fifteen-year-old Kate bravely rushed out into the storm, saving the lives of two men and preventing hundreds of other lives from being lost. This is the true story of a young girl's resourcefulness and courage in the face of great danger.
Book Synopsis The Stormy Adventure of Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Keeper by : Peter Roop
Download or read book The Stormy Adventure of Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Keeper written by Peter Roop and published by Graphic Universe. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Original Biography of Abbie Burgess Lighthouse Heroine by : Ruth Sexton Sargent
Download or read book The Original Biography of Abbie Burgess Lighthouse Heroine written by Ruth Sexton Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbie Burgess was only fourteen when she first stepped upon Matinicus Rock, off the coast of Maine. But she was no ordinary girl, as her life there proved. When her father was forced to sail to the mainland for desperately needed supplies, she tended the two light towers alone, as well as her family. During those harrowing weeks she battle record storms and starvation. Accounts of her bravery made her a legend among New England seafarers. From Publishers description.
Book Synopsis The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by : Arielle North Olson
Download or read book The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter written by Arielle North Olson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rocky island outpost off the coast of Maine, a young girl once kept the lighthouse lamps burning for days while her father was held on the mainland by a violent storm. This heroic incident forms the basis of Arielle North Olson’s dramatic story about young Miranda and her family. They have recently moved to the lighthouse—and the reader becomes acclimated along with Miranda to the harsh and demanding way of life she finds there. Illustrated in sweeping watercolors of blue and gray by Elaine Wentworth, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter will stir the hearts of readers as they watch Miranda struggle triumphantly against storm and rock and sea.
Book Synopsis Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by : Peter Roop
Download or read book Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie written by Peter Roop and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Maine Lighthouse ABC by : Connie Roop
Download or read book Maine Lighthouse ABC written by Connie Roop and published by Penobscot Books. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's ABC with information on Maine lighthouses, including a fun ditty and illustrations for each letter, a photograph of an accompanying lighthouse for each letter, and in-depth back matter for older children and adults about lighthouse history, visiting lighthouses and more.
Download or read book Louisiana Purchase written by Peter Roop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big purchase that led to fundamental questions about what America would become In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million, extending the United States beyond the Mississippi River for the first time. Now the United States had big questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided? Would it be comprised of free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans? With biographical sketches of the people who helped forge the answers to these questions, such as Lewis and Clark, Napoleon Bonaparte, and of course, Thomas Jefferson, this is the tale of the expansion of the United States into a new territory as well as a new era.
Book Synopsis Riding the Pony Express by : Clyde Robert Bulla
Download or read book Riding the Pony Express written by Clyde Robert Bulla and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Park is the son of a Pony Express rider, Katy Kelly is the daughter of a way station master, and Little Bear is an Indian boy who lives nearby. How three friends keep the mail moving is just part of this fast-moving tale about the great experiment in transcontinental communication.
Download or read book Clancy's Coat written by Eve Bunting and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Tippett the tailor has trouble getting around to returning farmer Clancy's old winter coat, he is quicker to take advantage of the opportunity to mend a broken friendship.
Download or read book Billy and Blaze written by C.W. Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson. Billy was a little boy who “loved horses more than anything else in the world.” Imagine how happy he was when he got his very own pony for his birthday! From that day on, Billy was seldom seen without his new friend, Blaze. Riding through fields and woods, Billy and Blaze learned to trust and understand one another—and to jump over fences and fallen trees with ease. They were a great team, but were they good enough to win the gleaming silver cup at the Mason Horse Show? This is the first book in the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and gentle understanding between a boy and his horse.
Book Synopsis George Washington's Breakfast by : Jean Fritz
Download or read book George Washington's Breakfast written by Jean Fritz and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having the same name and birthday as George Washington, a young boy wants everything else in his life just as Washington had it, but he can not find out what Washington ate for breakfast.
Book Synopsis Growing Up in Coal Country by : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Download or read book Growing Up in Coal Country written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
