Rescue at Cedar Lake

Something is tapping beneath the old culvert at Cedar Lake Camp, and eleven-year-old June cannot make herself ignore it. The shoreline has changed, county crews are scheduled to clear a failing dam before dawn, and the adults around her see only a drainage problem.

June sees tracks, fresh-chewed willow, and a water route that does not fit the official map. With Milo, the fast-moving cabinmate who never knows when to slow down, she follows the clues to a trapped beaver kit and a colony cut off from safe water. But proving an animal is there is not enough. June must show how the lake is changing before a rushed repair closes the only path home.

Set in a Vermont summer camp, Rescue at Cedar Lake is a warm, urgent nature adventure about careful courage, friendship, and learning when to act before certainty arrives.