• Age: 8 to 12
• Grade: 3 to 7

Cooper thought living at a campground would be cool. But ever since his parents bought the lakeside campground, he's had more chores and less time to explore. And as if babysitting his little sister and cleaning bathrooms weren't bad enough, his ex-friends Roy has chosen him as this summer's bullying target. Cooper's only bright spot this summer is his new friend, Packrat, a guy who carries the world in his coat pockets and leaves his troubles behind. But trouble has come to the Wilder Family Campground and Pine Lake, where a family of loons is building a nest. First, someone dams up the lake and floods the nest. Then, when Cooper and Packrat build a raft where the new loons can make a new nest, it gets destroyed by someone with big footprints. It's up to the boys to figure out who, why, and how to stop the culprit before it's too late.

Tamra Wight lives in Poland, Maine, where she runs the Poland Spring Campground with her husband and two children. Every summer she meets interesting families from all over the world. During the school year, she works as a teaching assistant at Whittier Middle School. Between the two, she has more writing inspiration than she knows what to do with! When Tamra isn't writing, she enjoys wildlife watching, hiking, geo-caching, kayaking, power-walking, snowshoeing.

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Carl DiRocco's's illustrations have been published in twelve children's books, including: Cooper and Packrat: Mystery on Pine Lake, and Cooper and Packrat: Mystery of the Eagle's Nest, (both Junior Library Guild winners), Dear Big, Mean, Ugly Monster, and Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig (a Children's Choice Selection). He is a graduate of the New England School of Art & Design in Boston and lives in Massachusetts.

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