The Perils of Pencil Lake

<p>Flipping his grandfather's Adirondack property seems so easy that 22-year-old Ray Marks takes a month off college to do an earth science project and fix the farm at the same time.<br /><br />It's a solid place and being smart honest and a logical thinker - what more could he need? Alarmed when rumors suggest someone is trying to take the farm for free Ray and a local high school helper scramble to save the family inheritance and in the process protect a small piece of nature and the environment.<br /><br />The novel is a YA coming-of-age teenage adventure portraying the values of the next generation struggling in a diverse community that is not always on their side.</p>