CAPTAIN POTTLE'S HOUSE
by Barbara Cooney
Mystery, thinly veiled and guessable, but a factor in selling a book which is fun reading in its salty sense of the coast of Maine setting. Cherry has come to visit her mother's childhood home, meets her sailor cousin on the narrow gauge train, and together they manage to make things hum. In retrospect there's not much originality in the story, but that doesn't matter much as you read.