Peter O'Banyon's life changes forever when his family is killed in an accident and he is sent to live with his uncle and learns the secret of keeping love and hope alive.
The diary of a ten-year-old girl who moves with her family in 1855 from a town on the Maine coast to rugged Turtle Island where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper.
In late ninteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Having published his tell-all memoir, put-upon butler Tristan Benway returns to work for the eccentric Bellweather family at Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, only to break his leg when the triplets destroy the lighthouse stairs.
In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.
The Hatts, owners of the spooky old Stoneybrook lighthouse, come to stay at Claudia's house, but it soon becomes clear that someone, or something, wants them to leave town and the Baby-sitters are determined to figure out who and why.
Molly, a Newfoundland dog purchased by the lighthouse captain's wife, causes so much trouble that she is on the verge of being sent back to the mainland, but she proves her worth when she makes a heroic rescue during a storm.
