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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Even before Ida Lewis's father taught her to manage a lifeboat's heavy oars, the girl was dedicated to the sea. In 1857, when she was fifteen, the family moved to the lighthouse at Lime Rock (which guards Rhode Island's Newport Harbor), where Mr. Lewis was lighthouse keeper. Soon after, illness disabled him; Ida took over his duties and, at sixteen, heroically rescued four boys whose boat had capsized, climaxing this brief ac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
