Growing up in Charlton as the eldest of five children, Tamra “Tami” Wight loved the out of doors. She and her siblings built forts, raced pine cones and leaves in the brook and looked for frogs.

She was also an avid reader and a frequent patron of the Charlton Public Library, enjoying such books as “The Witch From Blackbird Pond” and “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.”

She wrote, too, from a young age, but never with the thought of getting published.

She has indeed followed that path and will make an appearance at Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 E. Main St. in Webster, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 22nd to discuss her latest work: “The Mystery of the Lost Lynx”—the fifth in Cooper & Packrat’s eco-adventure series for middle-school readers.

Booklovers’ Gourmet is offering those in attendance a chance to play a wildlife fact game while checking out Ms. Wight’s tale of the Wilder Family Campground opening for the winter break and intrepid detectives Cooper, Packrat, Roy and Summer and “some cool friends” being diverted from their plan to have a little “snowy fun” by an unexpected mystery.

When they see a lynx kit wearing a pet collar, watch a reckless snowmobiler dash across the ice and are warned about a dangerous poacher, they set off to find out what is going on and to protect the camp’s wildlife from poachers before it’s too late.

Ms. Wight writes from experience; she and her husband owned and operated Poland Spring Campground in Maine for twenty-seven years.

Signed copies of all of the books in the series will be available.

Call 508-949-6232 for more information.