Anna goes with her brother and sisters to fetch water from the spring every day after school, but she is upset because she cannot carry the water on her head like everyone else.
Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
Despite the efforts of her island neighbors, a woman who is afraid of the dark stays awake all night and sleeps during the day, until a broken star helps her to see things differently.
Presents the history and exploits of a number of notorious pirates on the high seas including Englishman Captain Kidd, how he was captured, sentenced, and executed and also contains accounts of piracies in the West Indies.
Amateur treasure hunters Tate Beaumont and her father Raymond team up with professional deep-sea divers Matthew Lassiter and his Uncle Buck in an attempt to find the legendary jeweled amulet known as Angelique's Curse which lies somewhere on the bottom of the Caribbean.
