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When Stephen's dad is lost at sea in the mid-1800s, his life begins unravel. His devoted mother Ellen, an Irish wash-woman, can't keep an eye on Stephen and his brother while trying to make enough for the family to live on.
At her wits' end, Ellen sends Stephen to a reform school upstate, but Stephen doesn't take to it. Stephen is finally taken in by a family living on island 23-miles off the coast of Maine: Matinicus. There, Stephen rediscovers...