This is a cute series for girls. Each book features one girl who lives on Lighthouse Lane in a quaint Maine town in 1905.The girls are good friends.In this book, Katherine is the lighthouse keeper's daughter. She is a good artist and longs to go away to school in Boston to learn to draw properly. Her father promises her that if she can earn half of the tuition, or $25, that he will give her the other half to attend a Boston school. However, after Kat and her friends earn the $25, papa's share must go to fix the roof. Her dreams dashed, there's only one thing left to do and that's run away.