Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her home for the weekend.

At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.

After Tib Muller moves into the town where Betsy Ray and Tacy Kelly live, the eight-year-olds never quarrel, even when learning to fly-- from the limb of a tree.

An introduction to astronomy focuses on the brightest stars and constellations, explaining how to locate them and photograph them and indicating the best times for observation.