Blue Chimney — Gladys Baker Bond

A family-loving homebody -- that is Trilby Scott, age eleven. And that is all she wants to be. (Except maybe something of an artist -- she does like to draw.) Her chief interest is in her baby brother, especially his safety: he is just at the age to get into everything. Between him and her reckless older brother, who is always looking for excitement, she has never a calm, nor a dull, moment.

The great upset of her life comes when the family moves out to a wild part of Idaho. The big country seems so formidable and anything but homelike -- until she discovers on the beach of a mountain lake a houseboat that looks like Noah's Ark!