Title Kate's Light : Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse / Elizabeth Spires ; illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully,

Publication Info.	New York : Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, [2021]
	©2021

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department	J-B WALKER	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	JB WALKER	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department	J TRUE STORIES BIO WALKER	Check Shelf
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department	PEOPLE & PLACES E WAL	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department	J BIO WALKER, KATE	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 387.1 WALKER	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department	J92 WALKER	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	JB WALKER	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department	J OLDER SPIRES	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Nonfiction	JB WALKER KATE	Check Shelf

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." -- Amazon.com.
	"A biography of Kate Walker, one of the first woman on the Eastern seaboard to be put in charge of an offshore lighthouse."-- Provided by publisher.
Audience	Ages 6-8 Holiday House.
	Grades 2-3 Holiday House.
Subject	Walker, Kate, 1848-1931 -- Juvenile literature.
	Women lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Robbins Reef Lighthouse (N.J.) -- Juvenile literature.
	Walker, Kate, 1848-1931.
	Women lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography.
	Lighthouse keepers -- New Jersey -- Biography.
	Robbins Reef Lighthouse (N.J.)
	TRANSPORTATION / Navigation.
	Robbins Reef Lighthouse (N.J.) (OCoLC)fst02018062
	Women lighthouse keepers. (OCoLC)fst01178115
	Lighthouse keepers. (OCoLC)fst00998621
	New Jersey. (OCoLC)fst01208379
Genre/Form	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biographies.
	Creative nonfiction.
	Picture books.
Added Author	McCully, Emily Arnold, illustrator.
Added Title	Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse
ISBN	9780823443482 (hardcover)
	0823443485 (hardcover)

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