This is the third in the BIGFOOT BOY graphic novel series.

Friends, Penny and Rufus, will soon be spending their summer together in Northwood, when Rufus comes to stay with his grandmother. Meanwhile, Penny’s older sister is busy picketing / protesting to “save the forest” from becoming a golf course. It seems Rufus had found a totem in the forest on a previous visit and then lost it. Currently, ravens have the totem but can’t figure out how to make it work. Wolves want the totem to stop the deforestation caused by the humans. The wolves ask Thunderbird to help protect the forest from humans’ construction.

While Penny and Rufus are birdwatching with the Explorer scouts (Grammy signed them up without asking them),  they get separated from the group. Then Rufus gets separated from Penny and eventually runs into the Raven with the totem. Thunderbird has Raven return the totem to Rufus, then Rufus changes into Sasquatch, when he puts the totem on around his neck. Rufus, the Sasquatch, aka Bigfoot Boy scares off the Realtor and “The New Leaf Development representative would comment no further except to say that construction was on hold indefinitely.” (p. 95)

This is the first graphic novel I have enjoyed from start to finish! I could relate to the issues of land conservation, skepticism over the existence of Sasquatch,  the joy of being a part of a scouting troop, and the Native Americans in the storyline, as well as, in the illustrations are presented in a modern positive light.