Presents a series of itineraries for traveling through Maine, identifying and describing the attractions in nine separate regions of the state, and including practical information on lodging and restaurants, entertainment, beaches, lighthouses, and other topics.
The Locke children have grown used to the magical keys discovered within their home, Keyhouse, and the tragedy associated with them, but they do not realize the danger they are in from Lucas Caravaggio, alias Zack Wells, whose quest for the key to the black door is relentless.
Although fifteen-year-old Paige thinks he is determined to get away from home and pursue his own career goals in the big city, thirteen-year-old Abby confuses the issue by helping him see his Maine countryside in a more appreciative way.
During the Passamaquoddy winter migration in Maine, Baby Zoo Sap falls off the family bobsled and the forest animals, hearing his cries, gather to protect him until his father returns to find him.
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.
