Since 2015, Park City resident Melissa Marsted’s “Wildlife Adventures for Young Readers” book series has taken youths and adults to the United States’ Red Rock canyons in the southwest, national parks in the country’s northeast and even a marsh in Logan.
The author’s new adventure, “Rascal’s Year of Adventures,” which will be published on Sept. 20, through her own company, Lucky Penny Publications, heads to Wood Buffalo National Park, located in the upper reaches of Canada.
“It was inspired by one of the biggest beaver dams and lodges there and nearly impossible to get to,” she said.
The story follows an American beaver named Rascal, who had a hard time paying attention to things around him, according to Marsted.
“His mom tries to teach him how to be a responsible beaver, and the arc o