My House Is a Lighthouse: Stories of Lighthouses and Their Keepers

by Christine Welldon

Book Overview

Can you imagine yourself as a light keeper? Could you live full-time on an isolated coast? Your job is to keep a light shining out to sea, guiding ships to land, warning them of jagged shoreline, and maybe even assisting with a rescue in the case of a shipwreck.

Even though there are 750 lighthouses across North America, only 51 light keepers actively live and work in one in Canada, and just 1 keeper remains in the United States. In the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771087560
• ISBN13: 9781771087568
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5