Moody's Island, set like a jewel in Nine-Mile Marsh, is a valuable piece of property. When the widow who owns it dies and leaves the island to an absolute stranger, everybody wonders why. There is still one living relative, Clyde Moody, who was n...
Amy and Freddy Connors can't believe their ears when their Uncle Ken tells them he is going to stay in Mr. Sargent's big old house in Hidden Hollow all winter. And, when their father says that they can stay with Uncle Ken, they can't believe their...
A mongrel pup helps two children unmask a clever deception!
Kerry and Mark get a special excuse from school to spend ten days in Quebec with their father. From the moment they step into the hall of the rooming house where they are to stay, ...
When Janice and Tommy Brooks are invited to visit their Aunt Annabelle and her son Hubert at their new house in Maine near the Canadian border, they expect to have a wonderful summer. What they don’t expect is to hear galloping hoofbeats in a ro...
A potato farm in Maine is a dreary enough place to visit, city-bred Priscilla reflects gloomily, but how could her mother and brother, Lee, consider living here? Nothing exciting ever happens in Aroostook County…until the day the windmill on the...
In sunshine the old deserted house is a friendly landmark, and Gail even uses a shed on its grounds as a secret haven where she could write her poems. But by moonlight the house becomes eerie and terrifying. One night as Gail walks past it, a sudd...
By Sunday evening Prue Tenney was despondent. She and the others in her class were supposed to write about something exciting that had happened over the weekend. All of her friends had either found an adventure or caused one to happen, but Prue ha...
High above the town of Highwood is Echo Ridge -- a cold, dark hillside on which stands the mysterious Lampier house. It has been boarded up for years, but now Mrs. Lampier has come back to Highwood to live. David Hughes, his sister Barby, and thei...
What a lonely place for Elisabeth -- only empty summer cottages and sandy roads without cars and people. But she does find a friend in Henry, the boy with shabby clothes who lives on the Point. Together they must solve the mystery of the burnings ...
Only young Phil Holt suspects that the distinguished-looking Mr. Tate is looking for more than poetry in old Miss Goddard's library. Miss Goddard thinks the self-styled poetry expert is charming. But Boz, the dog, takes an instant dislike to the e...
A young girl tries to discover the source of mysterious sounds coming from a deserted mill....
When an uncle leaves his old Maine house to the Ward family, Anne and her brother Stephen find they have walked straight into a mystery. The puzzle has its roots in the disappearance of a beautiful girl long in the past. When a valuable portrait i...
When Neale and Margie Lawson hear that their father will have to sell his shore land and their beloved horse, Firefly, they are miserable. They can find no way to help until a strange red car, a lost cat, and the odd behavior of an eccentric old m...