Eleven-year-old Jack Putnam and his eight-year-old brother Benny are being dragged against their will on a summer-long vacation with their family. And they're not off to somewhere cool like Disney World, but to a little port town in Maine named Chowder Bay, far from anywhere fun. But what promises to be a very bleak summer quickly becomes a series of exciting adventures in one of the most mysterious places on earth! Warring seagulls! Giant lobsters! Kleptomaniac Eagles! Ghosts from the Civil War!
