lighthouses

With the help of his grandfather, Jim researches his favorite lighthouse for a school project and in the process learns about the father he lost to the Gulf War. Includes brief histories of the lighthouses of South Carolina.

Presents twelve scary, puzzling, and heartwarming stories about lighthouse ghosts.

An introduction to lighthouses, their history, keepers, and use.

A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that is is still useful and has an important job to do.

A survey of lighthouses and how they work in simple text and pictures.

Relates the real-life saga of Abbie Burgess, who single-handedly kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a four-week winter storm that lashed the coast of Maine in 1856.

Full-color photographs accompany Samuel Willard Crompton's informative and lively history, from the legendary lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to the remote beacons of the Pacific Coast.