eastern shore (md. and va.)

In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station.

A novel concerned with the history of the Chesapeake Bay area, following the lives of fictional Indians and white settlers and their descendants.

In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

When economic reasons cause two families to merge into a crowded household on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, more personal problems exacerbate the tense living conditions.