Charlie and the Rainbow Trout

In a small town in the Sawtooth Mountains lived a girl named Charlie, who was in the third grade. Her real name was Charlotte, but that was too proper for a girl who didn't like wearing dresses or getting her hair combed. She was a strong girl who liked to catch frogs and play with bugs. Her sisters and brother called her stubborn, but Charlie knew herself as determined.

Every year at the end of summer, the creek near her house dries up, and Charlie does her best to catch the rainbow trout caught in the last of the creek, under the bridge, and take them to safety in the Big Wood River. This year she has caught all the trout except one, and now she must try to catch the last fish and take it to the river. Charlie is covered with mud from head to toe from the creek, but can she catch the last rainbow trout?

Based on a true story, this children's tale follows a young girl working to save a rainbow trout from a creek that is drying up at summer's end.