In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
year: 2003, 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: rescue work, fiction, lifesaving, shipwrecks, mystery and detective stories, historical fiction, eastern shore (md. and va.), history, 19th century, fiction, mystery fiction
Editions
Jones, Elizabeth McDavid
Pleasant Co. (2003)
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
Schools: 4
Jones, Elizabeth McDavid
Skyview Books (2010)
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station.
Schools: 1