History Mysteries

1 primary work

Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

by Elizabeth McDavid Jones and Greg Dearth

Published 1 September 2003

In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.