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After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.

Twelve-year-old Milagros survives an invasion of her Caribbean island home, escapes with the help of sea creatures, and learns about a mother's love when cast ashore on another island.

The first year of giant baby Toddie's life is full of amusing situations as his caregivers figure out how to bath, feed, and change him.

Presents a colorful children's counting book for early readers that describes the animals, fish, historic forts, lighthouses, and other interesting sites that make up the history of Maine.

India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.

Surveys the people, geography, and history of the Pine Tree State.

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.

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.

Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.

Take a colorful journey across the nation with Explore the U.S.A. Learn the geography, history, symbols, and interesting facts that make this state special. Explore the U.S.A. introduces beginning readers to the state of Maine through vivid images and engaging text.