After her grandfather's funeral, Sarah wakes her father in the middle of the night so they can go to the lighthouse her grandfather loved and remember other night-time visits there.

"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--

A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.

In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.

When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at Elizabeth's retirement home.

"The summer tourist season is in full swing, and Priscilla Latham Grant is enjoying the visitors to the family history museum, housed in the lighthouse she inherited from her aunt Marjorie. But when one visitor comes bearing a deed he claims gives him rights to the land upon which the lighthouse sits, Priscilla is compelled to learn more. She's further dismayed when the man claims her family not only stole the land, but also ruined his great-great-grandfather's...

Meet the Bellweather family: Spider, a 14-year-old boy who surrounds himself and his family with endangered animals; Ninda, a 13-year-old do-gooder; the 9-year-old triplets, Spike, Brick, and Sassy; their hapless parents; and their wonderful, organized butler, Tristan Benway, who tells the tale of the chaos that is the life of the Bellweather family.

"Excitement abounds on Martha's Vineyard in the final countdown to the wedding of Priscilla's daughter, Rachel, and her husband-to-be, A.J. In addition to taking care of last-minute wedding details -- complicated by interference from Merilee, A.J.'s sister -- Priscilla becomes involved in a local wild-food chef apprentice challenge. Gerald's troubled young cousin is competing for a big cash price and a plum job. But someone is undermining the candidates,...