Tiny Seacrow Island is one of hundreds of islands in the sparkling blue of the Baltic Sea. Though small, it has everything youd want in an island woods to wander in, flowers to pick, fish to catch, boats to sail in, all kinds of animals. But it doesnt have very many young people. So when the four Melkerson kids and their father move into Carpenters Cottage one June day, theyre immediately welcomed by the resourceful islanders Johan and Niklas Melkerson, at twelve and thirteen, are natural companions for adventurous Freddy and Teddy girls exactly their age dreamy Pelle, the baby of the family, gets up to trouble with bossy Tjorven and fanciful Stina and ever-responsible Malin, who at nineteen looks after her scatterbrained father as well as her brothers, catches the eye of all the islands young men.
