Henry Carter Hull

In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.

Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives--from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness. Three women--burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues--tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister,...

A child describes some of the sights and sounds of summer.

Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny share a mysterious island for the summer with their grandfather.

Thirty-something childhood friends Ellis, Julia, and Dorie take a vacation to the Outer Banks in order to get away from their problems and are forced to face their secrets and start down a path of forgiveness, while spending time with a landlord who is barely able to keep his beach house and a woman in need of a hiding place and a new identity.

Summer transforms a quiet island as visitors arrive for swimming, playing on the beach, card games, soccer, hide-and-seek, and dancing in the evening.

Penny Alistair dies and her twin brother Hobby is left in a coma from a terrible car crash on the evening of Nantucket High's traditional graduation bonfire on the beach, and Zoe, the twins' mother, is forced to face the truth about what happened to them and her role in the accident.

Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.