The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (ISBN 0939510928)

Courage in small packages:
Hemingway defined courage as "grace under pressure". Arielle North Olson doesn't bother with a cute phrase. She writes about a courageous 10-year old girl. Miranda isn't particularly graceful. She clings to a catwalk a hundred feet above the rocks in the midst of a storm, alternately wiping her nose on her sleeve and scraping ice off the lighthouse window. She doesn't brave the wind and the cold for money, fame or glory; she knows the winter before, when a lighthouse down the coast was dark, two ships went down with all hands. It's a wonderful story. It tells your children that you don't have to be a bullfighter, a paratrooper or a firefighter (or an adult, or male, for that matter) to be brave. If Amazon can't find it for you, check it out of your library.

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter:
This is a great book about how a young girl takes on the responsibility of tending to her father's work of keeping a lighthouse while he is away. This isn't the easiest job, especially since there is a horrible storm going on. The young girl is new to living on this island but she uses courage a strength to climb the many stairs to light the candles. She knows how important it is to keep the candles lit during a storm. Miranda was sick, tired, hungry and cold but she never gave up and never lost hope that her father would return. This book is a great way to teach children how other their age work so hard in times that aren't easy. This young girl demonstrates mady great qualities. She loves her father and doesn't want to let him down so she uses all her strength to take care of the lighthouse.