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A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.

Alex and Abigail join the whole family in processing and selling apples and apple cider at their grandfather's farm.

A boy surprises his father on Christmas morning by getting up early and milking the cows on their farm.

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.

In the rolling hills of southern Indiana, an elderly couple copes with the fear that their river bottom farm--the only home they've ever known--will be taken from them through an act of eminent domain. The river flowing through their land, the current the old man has fished nearly every day of his life, may be damned to form a reservoir. Their son, slipping deeper into troubles of his own, struggles to define his place both in a new romantic relationship...

When the farmer places a scarecrow in the cornfield, Otis the tractor and the farm animals try to make friends, but the scarecrow remains silent with a sour look on his face throughout the summer and fall.

While Peter carefully tends a special pumpkin on his grandparents' farm, quiet Meg watches from her new home next door.

On his way to visit Granny Bett, who is feeling blue, Railroad Hank stops at the farms of several friends and, misunderstanding their offers to help, winds up with a trainload of crazy cargo.

A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire Basic training and the unfinished final novel If God were alive today.