Ten-year-old best friends and ghost hunters, known to each other as Gitter and Googer, think they have a chance to find a real ghost when Gitter's family inherits an old house in Maine.
Forced to miss the big baseball tournament, eleven-year-old Timmi spends the summer in the Maine woods with her grandfather and discovers another side of this seemingly aloof man.
Photographs and text provide information about the history, geography, government, people, and places of the state of Maine. Includes a time line, and a gallery of famous Mainers.
A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large.
Chronicles the life of American artist Sarah Orne Jewett, discussing her childhood, early works, personal relationships, feminist beliefs, and impact on the art world.
Thirteen-year-old Marguerite, orphaned in 1742 after moving to America from France with her grandmother and uncle, enters a contract to serve the Sargents for six years in return for food and shelter, and must endure the threat of Indian attacks, the harshness of life in northern Maine, and the loneliness of knowing she is without family.
After her sister's sudden death, seventeen-year-old Vanessa investigates a series of inexplicable drownings off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine, and uncovers an unimaginable secret that changes everything.
In Maine, retired French Canadian logger Jean du Bois and his grandson, Ti'Jean, rescue an orphaned moose calf who refuses to leave when it is grown. Meanwhile, Jean's work horse, Kate, grows too old to pull the plow.
