William Hopkins: 16 books

Though only ten years old, Sally Ladue has been thrust by circumstances into a precarious position of leadership in her crumbling family. With a father prone to mysterious, lengthy absences and a mother who is gradually succumbing to a series of health problems, Sally tries valiantly to hold it all together.

In The Clammer and the Submarine, a charming parable set on the picturesque New England coast, the long-held tradition of the clamming, and its culmination, the clambake, are held up as important symbols of a time before industrialization became widespread.