cape cod (mass.)

Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.

A sea gull leads readers on a trip through Cape Cod, introducing the region's notable sites and attributes in alphabetical order and teaching about its history and culture.

Following the disappearance of their mother, the Sykes siblings realize their home is being visited by a water spectre. Realizing their mother may not be who she said she was, they embark on an adventure that takes them to the bottom of the ocean and places them in the middle of an ancient conflict between good and evil.

The Silver sisters head back to Pruet to help Aunt Sunny plan her wedding, but cake and decorations are not the only items on the girls' agenda this summer. Lily is anxious to show off her swimming skills, while Marigold tries to get over the embarrassment of being cut from one of Hollywood's big blockbuster movies, and Zinnie works diligently on her story in order gain entrance into an elite writing program. But when Zinnie meets the boy of her dreams, she finds out that he has a crush on her sister.

Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.

In the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Lorna is swept out to sea, leaving her three best friends to struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavors to hide.

When their parents, a screenwriter and a film editor, go off on summer projects, Marigold, twelve, Zinnia, eleven, and Lily, five, must visit their Great Aunt Sunny in Cape Cod, where they learn much about themselves and each other and grow closer than ever.

Lester has just moved to Cape Cod and is starting in a new school, and George is missing his best friend who has moved away, but the two develop a friendship and learn about scientific experimentation when they start working on a school science project, testing psychic ability in dogs, based on an experiment developed by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.

When their parents, a screenwriter and a film editor, go off on summer projects, Marigold, Zinnia, and Lily, must visit their Great Aunt Sunny in Cape Cod, where they learn much about themselves and each other and grow closer than ever.