In 1814, when their father leaves them in charge of the Scituate lighthouse outside of Boston, two teenaged sisters devise a clever way to avert an attack by a British warship patrolling the Massachusetts coast.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: lighthouses, fiction, sisters, historical fiction, massachusetts, history, war of 1812, scituate (mass.), 19th century, united states, fiction