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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During a summer on a Maine island, seventeen-year-old Molly and her older cousin become very close, as she helps him deal with his father's suicide and his experiences in the Vietnam War, and as together they share encounters with a troubled ghost.
23) Hearts at home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The briefest month on the calendar presents the angels with the biggest challenges on Heavenly Daze. Edith Wickam, married to the pastor of the Heavenly Daze Community Church, has her heart set on wearing a designer dress to the wedding of the year. Trouble is, the zipper won't close! Will she find a diet - and the determination - to shed those pounds? Annie Cuvier is at peace with her world until tragedy presents her with a series of life-changing...
24) The missing ones
Author
Series
Hester Thursby mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don't want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remote - the kind of place tourists love to visit, though rarely for long. But a dilapidated Victorian house has become home to a group of squatters and junkies....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's springtime on Cranberry Island and love is in the air. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. He and his equally-gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn, forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu. The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. The first is a skeleton walled up at the island's lighthouse....
26) The runaway
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosemary Tulle has come to Halcyon Hall desperate to find her younger sister. Seventeen-year-old Genevieve left a brief, troubling message on Rosemary's phone, begging to be picked up. But Rosemary is not on the visitor list, and no one will let her in... Halcyon Hall was once Bainesworth Manor, an asylum for the insane. Such places often draw whispers about gruesome treatments and tortured inmates. In the case of Bainesworth, the reality may have...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julie Weathers isn't sure if she's running away or starting over, but the sun-washed, sea-stormed small town in Maine holds so much promise. The idea of teaching a one-room schoolhouse seems quaint and delightful - the perfect way to start over. But she soon realizes that things aren't as idyllic as she first believed. Julie comes to suspect that she may have traded one place shrouded in trouble for another, and she has to wonder if the greatest...
28) Enchanted August
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their children's preschool bulletin board: "Hopewell Cottage, Little Lost Island, Maine. Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island. Springwater, blueberries, sea glass. August." Neither can afford it, but they are smitten--Lottie could use a break from her overbearing husband and Rose from her relentless twins. On impulse, they decide to take the place and attract...
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Frederick Ackerman can't stand another summer with his confusing tangle of stepparents, stepbrothers, and stepsisters. So instead, his mother sends him to a remote area of New England to stay with two elderly aunts. As the plane takes off, Freddie feels everything familiar slip away. Despite his initial fears, he finds that he is comfortable in the eccentric aunts' rambling house. Soon, he has made a new friend in the nearby...
31) Black Rock Bay
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy's, a small island off the coast of Maine. Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy's cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case--and face all she's been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintry winds of Black Rock Bay...
32) Cave-in
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of kids on a field trip on a coastal island are abandoned after an earthquake hits and the fort they are studying collapses. At first they are trapped inside but after escaping the cave-in, they realize debris from the collapse has destroyed all of their supplies.
33) Pie Girl
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Yearling edition.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Piper Green looks forward to serving pie at Peek-A-Boo Island's annual potluck supper, but a food allergy upsets her plan.
34) Sylo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on...
35) The missing
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to the former Bainesworth Manor in the wake of a murder, reporter Edie Stone wants answers. It's been over forty years since the psychiatric hospital on Bane Island shut down, and the mystery of women vanishing there remains unsolved. But the exclusive retreat isn't just protected by the dark pine forests and crashing waves of Maine's rocky coast--it's surrounded with silence. Everyone on the island is keeping secrets. Especially the Dr. Elijah...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah and Skip's mom inherits a house and moves the family to a remote town in Maine for a fresh start, the pair is anything but pleased. What if there's nothing to do? What if they don't make friends? What if they can't play Pokémon GO? Then they see the mysterious island across the water from their new home--Ghost Island. Mom says she used to paddle out there and have all sorts of adventures. And when Sarah and Skip pick up a signal for a...
38) The sea pony
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf/Yearling
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Yearling edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, where children ride lobster boats to school, Piper wants a horse but finds, instead, another object hidden in the red maple tree.
40) The sea chest
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
AD 1150L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.