Torchlight

By Carol Otis Hurst

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

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.