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Spires, Elizabeth.
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Walker, Kate, 1848-1931 -- Juvenile literature.
Robbins Reef Lighthouse (Bayonne, N.J.) -- Juvenile literature.
Women lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Spires, Elizabeth.
Walker, Kate, 1848-1931 -- Juvenile literature.
Robbins Reef Lighthouse (Bayonne, N.J.) -- Juvenile literature.
Women lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Kate's Light : Kate Walker at Robbins Reef
Lighthouse
/ Elizabeth Spires ; illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully,
by
Spires, Elizabeth.
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, c2021.
Call #:
387.155092 W181s
Subjects
Walker, Kate, 1848-1931
--
Juvenile
literature
.
Robbins Reef
Lighthouse
(Bayonne, N.J.)
--
Juvenile
literature
.
Women
lighthouse
keepers
--
New
Jersey
--
Biography
--
Juvenile
literature
.
Lighthouse
keepers
--
New
Jersey
--
Biography
--
Juvenile
literature
.
ISBN:
9780823443482
0823443485
Alternate title:
Kate Walker at Robbins Reef
Lighthouse
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
37 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page 37).
Summary:
When Kate Kaird immigrated with her young son Jacob from Germany to America in 1882, she couldn't have predicted the surprising turn her life would take. She soon met and married John Walker, keeper of the Sandy Hook
Lighthouse
. They moved to Robbins Reef
Lighthouse
in
New
York Harbor in 1885 and she became assistant keeper. At first Kate wondered if she could live in such a lonely place, but she gradually grew to love life at Robbins Reef. When her husband died several years later, she was determined to stay on. After convincing the
Lighthouse
Board that she could do the job alone, Kate was appointed permanent keeper of the
lighthouse
, becoming one of the first women on the Eastern seaboard to be put in charge of an offshore
lighthouse
. She lived there 34 years and was known for her many rescues.
A
biography
of Kate Walker, one of the first woman on the Eastern seaboard to be put in charge of an offshore
lighthouse
.
Audience:
Ages 6-8 Holiday House.
Grades 2-3 Holiday House.
Genre:
Biography
,
Juvenile
.
Other authors:
McCully, Emily Arnold.
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0
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Children's Nonfiction
387.155092 W181s
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Children's Nonfiction
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