Lightship

You may never have
heard of a lightship.

Once, lightships
anchored on waters
across America,
on the oceans
and in the Great Lakes,
floating where lighthouses
could not be built.
Smaller than most ships,
but more steadfast, too,
they held their spots,
through calm and storm,
to guide sailors
toward safe waters.

In these pages
one lightship
and her crew (and cat)
again hold their place.
The crew goes
again from bow to stern,
from keel to mast,
to run their engines,
shine their lights,
and sound their horns.

They run the small ship
that guides the large ships.
They are the crew (and cat)
that work to make the ocean safe,
that hold their place,
so other ships can sail.

Come aboard

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 03/06/2007
ISBN: 9781416924364
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.10h x 9.30w x 0.50d
Award: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Buckaroo Book Award - Nominee
Award: Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award - Honor Book
Award: Cybils - Winner

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 01/15/2007 pg. 72
Publishers Weekly 01/29/2007 pg. 71
Booklist 02/01/2007 pg. 46
School Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 121
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2007 pg. 366 - Recommended
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2007 pg. 300
New York Times Book Review 10/14/2007 pg. 19
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2007 pg. 418 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2008 pg. 16

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 109553 / Lightship
Reading Level: 2.7 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5