Donald Averill Volgorde van de boeken

Ten-year-old Rocky Linfield and eleven- year-old Jerry Morgan met in the small coastal town of Crafton, Maine, in 1952. Both boys have lost their fathers in war and become best friends. Rocky and his younger sister, Susan, meet Mr. Waicukauski, who runs the lighthouse library. They give him a book containing coded information handed to them by a man who is killed on a highway. The Linfield children are visiting their grandmother, Martha Makler, an FBI retiree, while their mother is working in a parachute factory. The adventure takes the children and their families into the backwoods of Maine, where they are confronted by spies seeking data about the First US nuclear submarine.

I t was October of 1952 when ten-year-old Millie Harris moved in with the Linfield family, who ran the lighthouse in Crafton, Maine. Millie's stay was to be temporary while her parents delivered a yacht to the Bahamas. Millie was told by an FBI agent, her half-sister, that her parents had been kidnapped, but no ransom demands had been made. A second yacht with CIA agents aboard was being sent to the Bahamas to investigate. Millie felt it was her duty to help, but she could not do it alone. She recruited Rocky to join her, and they became stowaways on the yacht. When they got to the islands, the youngsters discovered the reason for the kidnapping and received help from Pinky, a native Bahamian who worked for the United States Navy during World War II by watching for Nazi submarines. Suffering attacks with a grenade, flares, a scouting knife, and Rocky's slingshot, the kidnappers paid for their crimes.

I t's 1959 in Crafton, Maine. Rocky Linfield, Millie Harris and Jerry Morgan have graduated from high school and are invited to spend a month in Scandinavia to learn about a furniture manufacturer's business. When they return home they are to assist with marketing the Swedish company's products while in college. However, their plans are altered when their passenger and cargo plane crashes, killing the pilots. Spared from the crash, they discover they are on a small rocky island of the coast of Labrador. With only a small amount of food and water available, the survivors worry whether they will be saved. three three American teens and their Swedish friend, Carina Svensson, take refuge in a partially built lighthouse and hope for rescue.