Pathfinder

A stick stands upright in the trail, a strip of birch bark clenched in its split end. To the Hickory Ridge scouts, Elmer Chenowith’s strange little drawings are no doodles: they reveal who went ahead—and where the trail divides.

In the woods, with vacation dwindling, the Boy Scouts are playing a tracking game: Elmer leads the way, leaving clues for the others to read. Matty Eggleston and his friends learn to spot patrol signs, crooked legs, missing hats and even the mark of a fallen scout, turning every detail into a message. But one tenderfoot, Nat Scott, is missing, and the trail game is becoming a real search. Can Elmer’s sharp eyes—and the scouts’ growing skill—lead them to Nat before the clues run cold?

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