Stella's Special Summer

Do you know how to catch a night crawler or lamprey eel, when to pick a mayapple or the sweetest ear of corn or a wild strawberry? Stella will be happy to tell you in this young-adult novel. Summer of 1955, Stella Karvotsky, age eleven, lives with her family at a fish camp by a Pennsylvania river. Her parents are trying to earn enough money to pay off a bank note on their Cabin. For Stella, this is a time of emotional losses and growth. She forms a special friendship with a huge white horse. Luckily, by solving a mysterious crime, she can save the Cabin.