FROM SARAH:

A favorite read-aloud about the bravery of a young girl left to care for her siblings and sick mother in an unexpected storm. Their father goes out to get medicine for their mother just before a storm strikes, so Abbie must keep the lights burning to help him get home.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

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.