Young Readers

NonFiction Barchelor, John. North American Lighthouses Coloring Book. Mienola, New York: Dover, 1999. Grades K – 5. Fleming, Candace, illustrated by James Watling. Women of the Lights. Morton Grove, Illinois: Albert Whitman, 1995. Grades 3 – 8. Gibbons, Gail. Beacons of Light: Lighthouses. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1990. Grades K – 5. Guiberson, Brenda Z. Lighthouses: Watchers at Sea. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. Grades 4 – 8. Jones, Dorothy Holder and Ruth Sexton Sargent. The Original Biography of Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Heroine, 5th ed. Wells, Maine: Lighthouse Digest, 1996. Grades 4 – 8. O’Hara, Megan. Lighthouse: Living in a Great Lakes Lighthouse, 1910 – 1939. Minnetonka, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 1998. Grades 2 – 6. Roop, Peter and Connie. Keep the Lights Burning Abbie. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, 1985. Grades K – 2. Tiger, Caroline. Start Exploring Lighthouses: A Fact-Filled Coloring Book. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002. Grades K – 5.

Fiction Fletcher, Susan. Walk Across the Sea. New York: Atheneum, 2001. Grades 4 – 8. Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Grades 4 – 8. Karr, Kathleen. The Lighthouse Mermaid. New York: Hyperion, 1998. Grades 1 – 4. Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis. Keeper of the Light. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Grades 4 – 8. Rylant, Cynthia. The Lighthouse Family: The Storm. Illustrated by Preston McDaniels. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Sauer, Julia L. Light at Tern Rock. New York: Puffin, 1994. Grades 3 – 6. Walsh, Jill Paton. Grace. New York: Sunburst, 1991. Grades 5 – 8. Woodruff, Elvira. The Ghost of Lizard Light. New York: Yearling Books. Grades 3 – 6.

Fiction: Picture Books Buzzeo, Toni. The Sea Chest. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré. New York: Dial, 2002. Grades 1 -5. Briggs, Kelly Paul. Lighthouse Lullaby. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2000. Grades Pre K – 2. Fearrington, Ann. Who Sees the Lighthouse? Illustrated by Giles Laroche. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002. Grades Pre K – 2. Hopkinson, Deborah. Birdie’s Lighthouse. Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root. New York: Atheneum, 1997. Grades 1 – 5. Perror, Angeli. Lighthouse Dog to the Rescue. Illustrated by Emily Harris. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2000. Grades K – 2. Swift, Hildegarde H. The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. New York: Harcourt, 2002. Grades Pre K – 2. Vaughan, Marcia K. Abbie Against the Storm: The True Story of a Young Heroine and a Lighthouse. Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words, 1999. Grades 1 – 5. Waterton, Betty. The Lighthouse Dog. Illustrated by Dean Griffiths. Custer, WA: Orca Publishers, 2000. A Light in the Wilderness by James D. Snyder Captain Angus, The Lighthouse Ghost by Wendy Laing Elin’s Island by Cynthia Copeland From the Lighthouse by Liz Chipman Gifts from the Sea by Natalie Warnock Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson My Little Lighthouse by Alice Palace My Very Own Lighthouse by Francisco Cunha Safely to Shore: America’s Lighthouses by Iris Van Rynbach The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor by Theodore Taylor The Lighthouse Cat by Sue Stainton The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Arielle North Olson The Lighthouse Lullaby Kelly by Paul Briggs The Lightkeeper’s Daughter by Iain Lawrence The Lightkeeper’s Menagerie by Elinor De Wire The Littlest Lighthouse by Ruth S. Sargent The Waving Girl by J.B. Nicholas