While trying to prove he can survive on an island off the coast of Maine, Chris Fossett meets Joellen Roth, who has come to the island with her father to work on a puffin research project, and the two become caught up in a mystery surrounding the island's 150-year-old ghost.
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
After a summer make-over, Madeline begins dating one of the most popular boys at her Maine high school, but when he moves to California, she fears for both her status and her relationship.
Intrigued by the legends spoken about the nearby Burial Island, a site of tragedy during the French and Indian Wars, teenagers Bean Carver and Abigail Peterson embark on an expedition to find the truth about the island, and the importance of friendship and loyalty.
When fifth-grader Bailey, who lives on an island off the coast of Maine, suffers a series of setbacks, including a lice outbreak at school, it will take every ounce of her determination and the help of new school friends to get everything back together.
Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery.