Ruth Waterman a bright, spirited, fourteen-year-old who summers on her family’s island in Maine is often neglected by her wealthy globetrotting parents. Further up the coast, a frightened ten-year-old Hawkins has run away to escape the beatings of his drunken lobsterman father. Accidently finding his way to Waterman’s Island the youth makes his home aboard a wrecked fishing boat. When Ruth discovers Hawkins trespassing on her property she tries to bully him away with little success. Though rivals at first, the two develop a lasting friendship during a challenge that Ruth offers the homeless Hawkins. If he succeeds the boy may claim the decaying boat for his own. If he loses—This collector’s edition has all nine books together for the first time in the same volume
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