Lamplighter by the Sea

In nineteenth-century Nantucket, fifteen-year-old Lucius Whitley, spurred on by his mother, plans revenge on the whaleship captain whom he holds responsible for the death of his harpooner father. This spooky story won the 2013 Al Blanchard Award.
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