TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spires,Elizabeth
AU  - McCully,Emily Arnold
TI  - Kate's Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse 
SN  - 9780823443482
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
KW  - Walker, Kate,
KW  - Robbins Reef Lighthouse (N.J.)
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Women lighthouse keepers
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Biography
KW  - Lighthouse keepers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Picture books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 37); Ages 6-8; Holiday House; Grades 2-3; Holiday House
N2  - "When Kate Kaird immigrated with her young son Jacob from Germany to America in 1882, she couldn't have predicted the surprising turn her life would take. She soon met and married John Walker, keeper of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. They moved to Robbins Reef Lighthouse in New York Harbor in 1885 and she became assistant keeper.  At first Kate wondered if she could live in such a lonely place, but she gradually grew to love life at Robbins Reef. When her husband died several years later, she was determined to stay on. After convincing the Lighthouse Board that she could do the job alone, Kate was appointed permanent keeper of the lighthouse, becoming one of the first women on the Eastern seaboard to be put in charge of an offshore lighthouse. She lived there 34 years and was known for her many rescues." -- Amazon.com; "A biography of Kate Walker, one of the first woman on the Eastern seaboard to be put in charge of an offshore lighthouse."--
ER  -