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After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.

When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.

"Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it"--Provided by publisher.

During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.

Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast, hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.

Jack and Benny are having a hard time reading "The Hidden History of Chowder Bay," given to them by Captain Hollister, but when a spooky whaling ship appears in the bay, the boys abandon the tome and join the search for Caldera, the fiercest whale that ever lived.

While Dodge continues his quest to find the key to the black door, the Locke children are left alone to defend themselves in a world where the night has become their enemy, at their new home, Keyhouse, on the island of Lovecraft, Maine.

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

"Two suspicious writers from New York arrive in Quinnie Boyd's small Maine town. They claim to be the confidants of a vampire count. But Quinnie begins to wonder if the authors are vampires themselves"--Provided by publisher.

"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Maine"--.