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His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family movesa lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce theyre moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a lighthousethis time for good!Frank is thrilled.But Spectacle Key isnt the perfect forever home they&#8217;d imagined. The lighthouse is falling apart. There are knocks on the doorbut no one is thereand mysterious sighs and sniffles from nowhere. Theres even a creepy doll that seems to move on its own. Could Spectacle Key be haunted?Then one day while exploring, Frank meets a girl in old-fashioned clothes, with no memory of who she is. What she does know, though, is that the island is under a curseand she needs Franks help to figure out how to lift it. 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