Three young people, Mary Lynne Elbridge, age eight, Penelope Elbridge, age fourteen, and Will Overstreet, age twelve, have to leave their comfortable lives in Bristol, England, to settle in the wilderness colony of Pemaquid, Maine in 1632. They do not wish to leave, but they must obey their parents. At Pemaquid a trader named Dixey Bull, who claims to be a pirate, gives Mary Lynne a map saying that the lost treasure of Norumbega can be found on an island in a lake north of Pemaquid. This is the same island on which an early explorer described a forest of pines taller than any trees yet seen in the world. This forest is the only thing in the New World that Penelope wants to see. No treasure is found on the island. There is trouble east of Pemaquid when the French seize the Plymouth Colony trading house at Penobscot and plunder Bull's vessel. Bull blames Abraham Shurt, leader of the Pemaquid Colony, for plotting with the French as Pemaquid and Plymouth are rivals for the lucrative fur trade on the Maine coast. Mary Lynne, who craves excitement, a break from the harsh routine of frontier life, gets more than she bargains for when Bull attacks Pemaquid and takes her captive. She thinks life as a pirate will be fun but one of the pirates tries to kill her. She flees into the wilderness near Pemaquid and gets lost in a blizzard. The local Indian chief Samoset rescues her and takes her to a new trading house that the Pemaquid Colony has built on the lake of giant pines. The ordeal in the snowy wilderness causes Mary Lynne to fall ill. She nearly dies but the care given her by Penelope and Will (who are protecting the remote trading house after Bull's raid) nurses Mary Lynne back to health. When Mary Lynne has recovered and the snow has stopped, they return to Pemaquid. There is no sign of Bull, and the sea-going posse sent to capture Bull, is storm-bound in Pemaquid harbor. During the Christmas season the Elbridge and Overstreet families find enchantment under the great pines on the island in the lake, this old growth forest and the bonds these families have forged together, the true treasure of Norumbega. This novel is based on what really happened in 1632, a tumultuous year in Maine's history.

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