Stella and Roy Go Camping

Stella and Roy are going camping at Lone Pine Lake with their mother. Hoping to see a bear, Roy is ever on the lookout for tracks. But new reader Stella has her animal identification book along, and she delights in showing Roy what kind of animals really made the tracks he's found. Roy spots coyote tracks and marmot tracks and lots of others, too—but no bear tracks.

At night, however, after the last marshmallow has been roasted, the food safely stowed in a black plastic bear barrel, and everyone is asleep, Roy hears a clunking, rolling sound outside the tent. Could it be the bear barrel? Could it be a bear?