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Booklist: The Mystery of Eilean Mor

Courage Like Kate: The True Story of a Girl Lighthouse Keeper, by Anna Crowley Redding and Emily Sutton (4-8).
Twelve-year-old lighthouse keeper Kate Moore, who took over for his father when the lighthouse stairs became too difficult for him to navigate, saved 23 sailors in a storm off the Connecticut coast.
Nonfiction.

Hello, Lighthouse, by Sophie Blackall (4-8).
Stunning illustrations sweep readers back in time to life in a lighthouse as the keeper weathers the seasons, grows his family, and eventually retires. Fiction.

Kate’s Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse, by Elizabeth Spires and Emily Arnold McCully (4-8).
In a solitary and demanding existence, Kate Walker mended and managed a critical lighthouse in New York Harbor for more than three decades during the 19th century. Nonfiction.

Yukie’s Island: My Family’s World War II Story, by Yukie Kimura, Kōdo Kimura, and Steve Sheinkin,
illus. by Kōdo Kimura (4-8).
A memoir of the author’s childhood spent tending to a small island lighthouse in Japan, and the changes that 1945 brought her family. Nonfiction.

The Lighthouse Family series, by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Preston McDaniels (6-9).
A gentle coastal adventure series in which a dog, a cat, and their three mice children explore the forest near their lighthouse home. Fiction.