After a happy childhood spent in the open air due to the fact he had out grown the living room , Niall left school armed only with the ability to infuriate his parents, teachers and any one in authority.
Niall Broderick
An early work life spent in a series of mind numbingly boring jobs, allowed Niall to nurture an uncontrollable imagination that still refuses to be tamed. A desire to share this imagination with like minded poeple of the same mental age, saw Niall become a primary school teacher, where he currently regales his pupils with stories of buffoonery, sandwiched between the essentials of the National Curriculum.
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Initially he depends on fantasizing military escapades with himself Freddie Ackerman as hero. Reality gradually becomes more exciting as he explores local legends with Ariel, a girl even lonelier than he. She too has an unhappy, fractured family life, and each of them learns to deal better with that reality as well as with each other. YA When thirteen-year-old Melita, sophisticated daughter of a New York actress, comes to visit Phoebe, who has been raised by her father on a farm in Maine, Phoebe discovers she has confusing feelings about their developing friendship. The Ghost Rock Mystery When Janice and Tommy visit their Aunt Annabelle's guest house in Maine, they begin wonder if it's haunted.
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Mystery at Shadow Pond ; ill Raymond Abel: Mystery in Longfellow Square Josh, who has dyslexia, spends the summer on an island off the coast of Maine and finds that he has much to prove to his gruff grandfather and his older brother. Juvenile An amusing story of an eccentric woman, Helen Mewer Perley, who operates an unusual animal farm in Maine. YA Suspense, romance, paranormal themes. Zara's life has been pretty rough so far; now she's living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine, to keep her safe.
However, safe she's not: Sand Dollar Summer Debut novel by author from Vermont. Book set in Maine. A girl's story told with affection, grace, tension and suspense. The lives of year-old Lise and her 5-year-old brother Free who is intelligent but selectively mute are changed when their mother is seriously injured in a car accident and decides to move with the kids to a shack on a beach in her hometown of Spindle Beach, Maine. Lise is afraid of the ocean and is bored and lonely, until she meets Ben, an elderly Passamaquoddy man, from whom she begins to learn a kind of eternal wisdom.
Young adult Nancy Drew mystery. Nancy joins Ned at the Rocky Isle Marine Institute in Maine as a volunteer at the facilities aquarium and has to deal with a threat to destroy the entire institute. These books are for young adults. Story of a youngster who, in love with boats of all kinds, teaches himself the art of building them.
In spite of an early set-back with his first effort a sailing log canoe he finally masters the difficulties and succeeds in becoming a much sought-after young boat-builder and shipwright. While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelve-year-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid.
Young adult Having reluctantly moved to Maine after her father's death in Manhattan, fourteen-year-old Denise forges a healing friendship with a boat owner surrounded by considerable mystery. In a small town in Maine, a sex-obsessed teenager named Jason gets involved with a mystery and learns that humor and intelligence are as important as physical attributes. Patrick's Tree House ; ill. The Night of the Hurricane A Mystery for Meg ; ill. Meg's stay with her older brother on an island off the Maine coast is punctuated by mystery and suspicion.
Meg's Mysterious Island Meg and Melissa Ironbound Island Trouble on Heron's Neck The Indians on the Bonnet ; ill. And she doesn't feel she belongs with her hippie parents, either. When her family moves to Tidal, Maine, Raleia forges a friendship with eighty-eight-year-old recluse Ian, and an unlikely and combative but ultimately rejuvenating friendship results. Jem's Island , illus. Fourth of July Bear , illus. Addie and Chris try to solve the mystery of two strange men on Black Rock Island off the coast of Maine.
Tracy James leaves her contented life in Florida to become involved in a mind-controlling cult in Maine and to learn why an old family friend's lobster business is being sabotaged. Genesis is 17 when her father disappears on Moosehead Lake, Maine, and the family must wait until spring for answers. Set in late s. The Trouble with Gramary Grades Carrie, a year-old girl living on a Maine Island in , wants more than anything else to go to school. But by day's end, her world will be turned upside down.
A baby harbor seal has been abandoned on the rocks. The tide is coming in, and the seal's mother is nowhere to be seen. The Lincolns must make a decision: Kathryn Hewitt; , ill. With the help of his grandfather and a kindly baker, an 8-year-old Thai boy begins to lose his shyness and starts speaking English. Story set in Portland, Maine. Twelve-year-old Catherine has a brother with autism, and because he loves rules, she tries to break the world down into statements and rules - some funny and some poignant -- about how people behave to help him understand, and stop embarrassing her!
The Unlikely Adventure of Wilf Wiggins (A thrilling adventure comedy for children aged 8-12)
Won the Newbery Honor award. Separated from his parents while swimming on a lake in the Maine woods, a loon chick must experience life's hard realities as he confronts a moose, a raccoon, and an otter. Part life lesson, part nature guide. When Sarah's father, a lighthouse keeper, is transferred to a station on a barren island offshore, her mother misses her mainland garden; Sarah plants seeds in the crevices and cracks of the rock ledge, which bloom to her mother's delight and that of local fishermen. Young adult Before Natalie, adopted as an infant, goes to college, she investigates her parentage, in a journey that takes her to a New York City and to a small Maine town.
Julie and her family spent many happy vacations in Maine.
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Now they are living there permanently, and Julie finds she is living with the ghost of her beloved father, a ghost she has built out of love and guilt. The wild geese, an old neighbor and a boy with a dog help her back from the brink of madness. The Turning Tide Young adult Four generations of a Maine shipbuilding family. Young adult Tired of being compared to his rock star father and frustrated by his mother's mental illness, year-old Aaron Webb attempts to sever ties with his dysfunctional family by settling, anonymously, in a small Maine town. Mysterious paintings in a cave near her grandmother's inn on the Maine coast and an unusual cat that her younger brothers want to adopt lead twelve-year-old Evie to face her suppressed memories of her mother's death and her father's breakdown six years before.
Kristy and the other three BSC members have to take care of six kids for ten days in one of the most spooky houses they've ever seen. Set in fictional seaside town of Reese, Maine. Mae breaks her leg and is taken to the hospital so her leg can be put in a cast. Grandmother Bryant's Pocket After her dog dies in a barn fire, Sarah is beset by nightmares. Her parents send her to visit her grandmother, an herbalist with remedies for many ailments.
Grandmother Bryant gives Sarah a 'pocket' -- a cloth bag worn at the waist -- stuffed with healing herbs and embroidered with the words 'Fear Not. Time of Wonder One Morning in Maine Lobstering in Maine Walking the Edge Mead paints an entirely convincing and involving picture of a realistically prickly heroine as she balances worry about her mom with resentment at being left behind. Young adult When Bill Crane, just out of high school, reconditioned an abandoned bulldozer, things began to hum in the Maine community where he lived.
The fascination of modern machinery is combined with plenty of action and fine characterization in this absorbing tale. Attack of the Volcano Monkeys RL: Second volume in the Ordinary Basil series. RL Darren and Jackie go to Maine to visit their uncle and discover that their family is far from ordinary.
Fantasy mixed with fairy lore. Juvenile A vivid story of real boys in a Maine seacoast village, with an exciting background of rocky coasts, clanging buoy bells, and treacherous fogs. Blanche of the Blueberry Barrens ; ill. Young adult Story of a young girl who goes to Maine every summer with her family to pick blueberries. Three-Part Island, a Maine Mystery The Mystery of the Pilgrim Trading Post , illus. Twins Will and Lettie Dennis spend a summer with their cousin and aunt at their home in Maine and solve a mystery. Illustrated by Mimi Gregoire Carpenter.
How to Catch a Lobster RL: Juvenile The Dinosaur Bite Juvenile Set on an Island off the coast of Maine, a man and his six now motherless children settle in to escape the confusion of the city. They challenge both nature and the 'little foxes' of a region fully capable of guile. K-3 Three Woolwich children travel to Southwest Harbor where their grandmother tells them about family history and traditions.
Young adult Love story set during the early years of a nurse's training school, now part of the Eastern Maine Medical Center at Bangor, Maine. Young adult About Jamie Bennett and life in Maine, in early s. The Pigeon Pair Young adult An eighteen-year-old girl's account of nine important years of growing up on the back road camp outside a small fishing village in Maine, from her first recognition and shame of their poverty, to the loss of her mother, the struggle to remain a family, and the hope shared with her twin brother to regain their old family home. Takes place Matinicus Rock Lighthouse, s.
When her father's return to a Maine lighthouse is delayed by a severe storm, Miranda must keep the light going despite brutal weather and her own illness. Young Adult After Meagan Clark's family moves from sunny California to the back woods of Maine, her life changes forever when, as punishment for cheating, she is forced to read to a boy in a coma. The author was born and raised in Lewiston. Storm Treasure ; ill. Juvenile Fiction set in Maine. Work in Progress YA Maine 8th-grader Brett McCarthy's life changes after she pulls a prank; suddenly she's got enemies and becomes a loser at school.
Boarding school classmates Christie, Maggie and Vicky are spending their summer vacation at Maine's Blue Heron Inn, owned by Maggie's parents, when strange things start happening -- all designed to frighten the guests. The girls suspect sabotage and get on the case to catch the culprit before the inn is put out of business. Two years later the ship's captain returns, wanting his dog, but the dog chooses Sarah. Based on a true story. Sirius, the Dog Star Nathan, a young black crewmember on a coastal schooner, forms a friendship with a Newfoundland dog named Sirius.
When Nathan's schooner is wrecked near Maine's Boon Island Light, the dog's bravery and loyalty are put to the test. Childhood summers spent on the St Croix River provided much of the inspiration for this story. Ages About a lighthouse on Bayberry Island. Based on the past practice of building fairy houses out of twigs, bark, and acorns in the woods on Monhegan Island. It is now discouraged due to ecological concerns. Pottle, the dump man of Shiretown, Maine has only one rule: No throwing books away.
He joins the local children to rescue and recycle those found in the trash. A Story of Friendship ; ill. This is a story of the Depression-era childhood of a Aroostook County girl. The Gazebo ; ill. Beginning and ending set in Maine, s. A little girl becomes intrigued with gazebos when she finds an old book about them in her father's library; through the book, she travels the world, enchanted by miniature buildings in far-away lands.
In the summer, she plays in the gazebo her parents built adjacent to their seacoast cottage in Maine. When she grows up, she actually travels the world, as an ambassador, and she builds her own gazebo in Maine. Maine Marmalade ; ill. Pre-K Youngsters learn to count from one to twenty all the way through four busy seasons in Swan Harbor, Maine. Young adult When Marnie's father rented Stoneycraig, an old house on the rocky coast of Maine, he didn't know it would be haunted by the eerie sobbing of a dead woman.
What is the mystery that surrounds her death? And will it cost Marnie and Peter their lives? Young adult Fictional tale of an yr-old guide. Trail To the North Young adult A Bill Gordon story. Only Parent ; illus. Juvenile Tale of a single mother living in a cabin in the Maine woods. A young girl looks ahead and makes a courageous choice Star Island Boy ; illus. Young adult Three of A Kind Young adult An yr-old girl in foster care interacts with emotionally disturbed 4-yr-old boy, in Maine.
Summer at High Kingdom The members of a hippie commune established on a nearby farm have a marked effect on the attitudes of a young Maine boy and his family. Young adult Vonna went to the old Bracy house in Maine, ready to do anything for the sake of Robby, but the conflicts and hatreds that filled that house were almost too much for her sacrifice. And then Vonna found herself in terrifying danger, asking herself if even Robby was worth the price she was being asked to pay.
Adventures of a teenaged boy who jumped ship to bring to the colonies the Old World skill of fish-curing that had been the pride of the Tobey family for generations. Part of The Land of The Free series. Young adult An orphan from Calais who does not want to be adopted. A Boy and a Deer Takes place in Maine. A Boy Called Plum ; ill.
Someone is Following Pip Ramsey ; ill. What seems a harmless enough trip to the family's ancestral home on Maine's Shag Island turns into something much more dangerous for year-old Kim, as she finds her great-grandfather controlled by Chinese music from his past. Takes place on Maine island.
Tunnel Beneath the Sea ; illus. Peter Gorski and Pam DeVito: Facing danger and death, they uncover a mystery and save their father's career. Lucinda is almost grown up. Her family had to go to Maine to spend a year in the summer cottage which was all that was left to them after her father died. Maggie Rose -- Her Birthday Christmas , illus. Daddles, the Story of a Plain Hound-Dog ; ill.
See also Ensor's Nellie: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Then he makes friends with a smart, lively young [African-American] teen, Lizzie Griffin, living in a small, impoverished community founded by former slaves on nearby Malaga Island. When the town elders drive Lizzie's people off the island, Turner stands up for them, but he can do nothing.
Lizzie eventually dies in an insane asylum" Booklist review.
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A Maine Logging Adventure Eleven-year-old Ben accompanies his Uncle Horace on a trip upriver and has an adventure. Black-and-white illustrations by the author. Romantic tale takes place at the end of the 19th century, based on the life of an itinerant English tinker, as recorded in the annals of Sullivan, Maine.
Inevitable changes are altering the lives of the inhabitants of this seacoast town. Their orderly ways, set by nature, are disturbed by the arrival of the mysterious and solitary tinker. Young adult Story of a boy's struggle to win a place for himself in a Maine lobstering village. The Landon kids try to discover why dead sea mammals are washing up on the shores of Acadia National Park.
Bindy, the family's foster child, knows who's responsible, but is afraid to tell. Juvenile Michael is taken on by the captain of the schooner Mary Day and has a fine adventure on Penobscot Bay while learning to be a sailor. The trip is full of things that make summer, and Maine, so special: