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A summer for always

1995
Sixteen-year-old Marty is spending the summer on the coast of Maine and a good looking local boy, Michael, is trying to get her attention. Marty is afraid Michael will learn that her mother is an alcoholic.

Downtick

1998

A certain slant of light

2000
Since he lost his wife and children in a fire, Peter has lived a closed off life on the coast of Maine, but when he meets a young pregnant woman on the run from her husband, he once again learns to open his heart.

Tips on having a gay (ex) boyfriend

2008
Belle, a high school junior, expects to marry her long-term boyfriend one day until he tells her and their entire small Maine town that he is gay, and both face prejudice and violence even as they enter new relationships and try to remain friends.

The Colorado kid

2005
When an unidentified man is found dead off the coast of Maine, a local newspaperman and a graduate student in forensics team up to identify the man and find out how he died.

Birdie's lighthouse

2000
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.

Cheesie Mack is cool in a duel

2013
Cheesie and Georgie head to summer camp in Maine, where they will be the oldest of the Little Guy campers, but when they are put in a cabin with the Big Guy campers--including Cheesie's archenemy, Kevin Welch--Cheesie challenges Kevin to a Cool Duel.

Touch blue

2012
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.

Walking the edge

1995
Frustrated by his life of near-poverty and the unreliability of his divorced, drunken father, thirteen-year-old Scott throws himself into a science project raising clams to restock the bay of his Maine village.

Songs in the silence

1994
Finding that she shares a mental link with the two whales that have entered the harbor of her Maine island, eleven-year-old Hallie hopes both to save them and to use their healing power to help her hospitalized younger brother.

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