Torchlight

By Carol Otis Hurst

Subjects: History, Juvenile fiction, Irish Americans, Fiction, Children's fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Schools, fiction, Friendship, Prejudices, Friendship, fiction, Massachusetts, history, fiction, Irish americans, fiction, Schools

Description: In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.