Feeling lonely and isolated on Clarendon Island, 14-year old Charlotte Yorke soon learns that a remote barrier island can be a uniquely exciting place to live. Encounters with robbers, an eccentric neighbor, a ghost, and a most unlikely hero change her perspective. The South Carolina Lowcountry is a region alive with history of wars, pirates, moonshiners, and heroes. Local legends include ghosts, voodoo, and strange creatures of the night, such as boo-hags. Clarendon Island is intended to acquaint Lowcountry adolescents with their rich history and culture through the adventures of an adolescent girl in the 1880s.
