Fifteen-year-old Tink's friendship with a writer temporarily staying in a house on the beach contributes to anguishing problems at home and at school, but also gives him the sustenance for surmounting them.
Introduces the people, geography, sports, history, culture, industries, and symbols of Maine, featuring maps, census information, brief profiles of notable individuals, informative charts, and more.
Delighted when her prayers for an Irish wolfhound are answered, thirteen-year-old Annie, living in a small Maine town where her father is an Episcopal minister, soon finds herself in trouble when she tries to deal with the consequences of the large dog's playful curiosity.
In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her discover a way to support them all.
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.
Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal Maine home, and as she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange psychic connection.
Peter chronicles his family's vacation in Maine highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman.
Sixteen-year-old Daphne Van Helsing is tired of the family business and wishes for a life aside from slaying vampires, but when the Van Helsings are called to a coastal town in Maine they face a new race of vampires and Daphne's first potential boyfriend, Tyler Harker, winds up being the son of a rival slayer family.
