The Map of Heritage Hollow

When a mysterious green light starts drifting over the swamp at the edge of Heritage Hollow, two clever raccoon siblings decide to find out what it means before anyone else in town even notices something's wrong.Sharp-eyed Slick keeps careful watch from the old clock tower, tracking bearings and building a plan. His quick-witted sister Muffin never lets him take himself too seriously - but she's just as determined to get to the bottom of it.Their search leads them from the roar of an old water wheel to a farm stand run by a boy carrying more worry than any eleven-year-old should, from a zoologist who talks to owls to a scientist whose AI never sleeps - and finally, together with the whole town, to an answer waiting in the dark water itself.Along the way, young readers pick up real navigation skills, real vocabulary, and real math, all stitched into a mystery that rewards patience, honesty, and the courage to ask for help.Book One of the Heritage Hollow series, where a town keeps its old stories and its new ones side by side - and where the answers are always worth walking toward.