Zeke, a television and junk food addict, dragged kicking and screaming to camp, is bored by the counselors' silly stories of wendigos--monsters that supposedly haunt the Maine woods--but that was before he pried up a strange rock and unwittingly unleased terror upon the camp.
On Seal Island off the coast of Maine, a place as warm with pets of all kinds, nine-year-old Pru plans to keep her teacher from leaving by finding her a dog.
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.
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
Presents the author's observations, based on three journeys to the woods of Maine, describing his encounters with loggers, Native Americans, and wild animals, as well as his reflections on the natural surroundings.
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
