The Lightkeeper's Daughter (18 page)
WHIRLIGIG
Paul Fleischman
•
0-440-22835-2
In one terrible moment, Brent Bishop’s life
changes forever. He kills another teenager, Lea, in
a car crash. Lea’s mother asks one thing of Brent:
that he create four whirligigs from a picture of Lea
and set them up at the four corners of the United
States. And so Brent’s journey begins.
GHOST BOY
Iain Lawrence • 0-440-41668-X
Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino—an
outcast. When the circus comes to town, Harold
runs off to join it in hopes of discovering who he
is and what he wants in life.
THE YEAR WITHOUT MICHAEL
Susan Beth Pfeffer
•
0-385-73120-5
Bad things aren’t supposed to happen to good
people. But somewhere between home and the
softball field, sixteen-year-old Jody Chapman’s
younger brother disappeared. As hope fades and
her family falls apart, Jody makes a last desperate
attempt to hold them together.
readers circle
COUNTING STARS • David Almond
0-440-41826-7
With stories that shimmer and vibrate in the bright heat of memory, David Almond creates a glowing mosaic of his life growing up in a large, loving Catholic family in northeastern England.
HEAVEN EYES • David Almond
0-440-22910-3
Erin Law and her friends in the orphanage are labeled Damaged Children. They run away one night, traveling downriver on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine.
KIT’S WILDERNESS •David Almond
0-440-41605-1
Kit Watson and John Askew look for the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors in the mines of Stoneygate.
SECRET HEART •David Almond
0-440-41827-5
Joe’s mind is always somewhere else. He doesn’t fit in, and everybody laughs at him. And then a tattered circus comes to town, and a tiger comes for Joe. It leads him out into the night, and nothing in his world is ever the same again.
SKELLIG •David Almond
0-440-22908-1
Michael feels helpless because of his baby sister’s illness, until he meets a creature called Skellig.
BEFORE WE WERE FREE •Julia Alvarez
0-440-23784-X
Under a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, young Anita lives through a fight for freedom that changes her world forever.
BECOMING MARY MEHAN: TWO NOVELS •Jennifer Armstrong
0-440-22961-8
Set against the events of the American Civil War,
The Dreams
of Mairhe Mehan
depicts an Irish immigrant girl and her family, struggling to find their place in the war-torn country.
Mary
Mehan Awake
takes up Mary’s story after the war, when she must begin a journey of renewal.
FORGOTTEN FIRE •Adam Bagdasarian
0-440-22917-0
In 1915, Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege when his world is shattered by the Turkish-Armenian war.
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS •Ann Brashares
0-385-73058-6
Over a few bags of cheese puffs, four girls decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The next morning, they say goodbye. And then the journey of the Pants, and the most memorable summer of their lives, begin.
THE RAG AND BONE SHOP •Robert Cormier
0-440-22971-5
A seven-year-old girl is brutally murdered. A twelve-year-old boy named Jason was the last person to see her alive—except, of course, for the killer. Unless
Jason
is the killer.
DR. FRANKLIN’S ISLAND •Ann Halam
0-440-23781-5
A plane crash leaves Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stranded on a tropical island, totally alone. Or so they think. Dr. Franklin is a mad scientist who has set up his laboratory on the island, and the three teens are perfect subjects for his frightening experiments in genetic engineering.
WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN •Kimberly Willis Holt
0-440-23841-2
Toby’s small, sleepy Texas town is about to get a jolt with the arrival of Zachary Beaver, billed as the fattest boy in the world. Toby is in for a summer unlike any other—a summer sure to change his life.
THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE OF LIARS •Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
0-440-23852-8
Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, a self-described chunk, isn’t sure what to make of her hunky neighbor’s sexual advances, or of the attention paid her by a new boy in town who seems to notice more than her body.
GHOST BOY •Iain Lawrence
0-440-41668-X
Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. When the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it in hopes of discovering who he is and what he wants in life. Is he a circus freak or just a normal guy?
THE LIGHTKEEPER’S DAUGHTER •Iain Lawrence
0-385-73127-2
Imagine growing up on a tiny island with no one but your family. For Squid McCrae, returning to the island after three years away unleashes a storm of bittersweet memories, revelations, and accusations surrounding her brother’s death.
LORD OF THE NUTCRACKER MEN •Iain Lawrence
0-440-41812-7
In 1914, Johnny’s father leaves England to fight the Germans in France. With each carved wooden soldier he sends home, the brutality of war becomes more apparent. Soon Johnny fears that his war games foretell real battles and that he controls his father’s fate.
GATHERING BLUE •Lois Lowry
0-440-22949-9
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously taken to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
THE GIVER •Lois Lowry
0-440-23768-8
Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices, until Jonas is given an opportunity that will change his world forever.
SHADES OF SIMON GRAY •Joyce McDonald
0-440-22804-2
Simon is the ideal teenager—smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon’s car crashes into a tree and he slips into a coma, another portrait of him begins to emerge.
HARMONY •Rita Murphy
0-440-22923-5
Power is coursing through Harmony—the power to affect the universe with her energy. This is a frightening gift for a girl who has always hated being different, and Harmony must decide whether to hide her abilities or embrace the consequences— good and bad—of her full strength.
BOTH SIDES NOW •Ruth Pennebaker
0-440-22933-2
A compelling look at breast cancer through the eyes of a mother and daughter. Liza must learn a few life lessons from her mother, Rebecca, about the power of family.
HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER •Mollie Poupeney
0-440-22879-4
As she matures from a feisty tomboy of seven to a spirited young woman of fourteen, Maggie discovers that the only constant in her life of endless new homes and new faces is her ever-emerging sense of herself.
THE BABOON KING •Anton Quintana
0-440-22907-3
Neither Morengáru’s father’s Masai tribe nor his mother’s Kikuyu tribe accepts him. Banished from both tribes, Morengáru encounters a baboon troop and faces a fight with the simian king.
HOLES •Louis Sachar
0-440-22859-X
Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there’s more than character improvement going on at the camp—the warden is looking for something.
STARGIRL •Jerry Spinelli
0-375-82233-X
Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” Then they turn on her.
SHABANU: DAUGHTER OF THE WIND •Suzanne Fisher Staples
0-440-23856-0
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. She must reconcile her duty to her family and the stirrings of her own heart in this Newbery Honor–winning modern-day classic.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY •Janet Tashjian
0-440-23792-0
Josh Swensen’s virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. While it seems as if the whole world is trying to figure out Larry’s true identity, Josh feels trapped inside his own creation.
MEMORIES OF SUMMER •Ruth White
0-440-22921-9
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric describes her older sister Summer’s descent into mental illness, telling Summer’s story with humor, courage, and love.
about the author
IAIN LAWRENCE studied journalism in Vancouver, British Columbia, and worked for small newspapers in the northern part of the province. He settled on the coast, living first in the port city of Prince Rupert and then at a remote radio-transmitter site that could be reached only by boat or helicopter. He now lives on the Gulf Islands. An avid sailor, Iain Lawrence wrote two nonfiction books about his travels on the coast before turning to children’s novels.
The Lightkeeper’s Daughter
is set on the north coast, where the remains of a lighthouse stand on an island very much like the fictional Lizzie.
Iain Lawrence is the author of five other novels for young readers, including the acclaimed High Seas Trilogy:
The Wreckers
(an Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee),
The
Smugglers,
and
The Buccaneers
. Lawrence’s
Ghost Boy,
set in postwar America, was named a
Publishers Weekly
Best Book of the Year, a
School Library Journal
Best Book of the Year, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and an ALA Notable Book.
Lord of the Nutcracker Men,
inspired in part by family stories of Iain Lawrence’s grandfather, was named a
Publishers Weekly
Best Book of the Year and a
School Library Journal
Best Book of the Year.
also by iain lawrence
GHOST BOY
LORD OF THE NUTCRACKER MEN
THE HIGH SEAS TRILOGY
The Wreckers
The Smugglers
The Buccaneers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lawrence, Iain.
The Lightkeeper’s daughter / Iain Lawrence
p. cm.
Summary: When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old
Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off
British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents
try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past,
especially the death of her older brother.
[1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Lighthouse
keepers—Fiction. 4. Islands—Fiction. 5. British Columbia—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.L43545 Li 2002
[Fic]—dc21
2002000578
eISBN: 978-0-307-43393-0
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