Eleven-year-old Jack Putnam & his eight-year-old brother Benny are being dragged against their will on a summer-long vacation with their family & not to somewhere cool like Disney World but to a little port town in Maine named Chowder Bay far away from anyplace fun But what promises to be a very bleak summer quickly becomes a series of exciting adventures in one of the most mysterious places on earth! This second volume finds the boys scaling a nearby mountain to confront a giant kleptomaniac eagle with an obsession with fancy hats!