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.
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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
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