Cora Jenkins works as a maid to support her family, the only African American family in a small Iowa town. Cora transfers her love for dead daughter to the daughter of her white employer, and Cora's love emboldens her to defy her employer.
When the Mesquakie, or Fox, Indians receive money from the government in 1955 to settle a treaty, Charlie Young Bear hopes that there will be enough for him to get a new bicycle, and prays to the Great Spirit for help.
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him "If you build it, he will come." Driven by this vision, he turns part of his field into a baseball stadium where the ghosts of famous baseball players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, come to play.
Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him "If you build it, he will come." Driven by this vision, he turns part of his field into a baseball stadium where the ghosts of famous baseball players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, come to play.
A seventeen-year-old star student and gifted athlete hides the painful truths about her private life, including a failing family farm, her mother's growing apocalyptic fears, the institutionalization of her special-needs sister, and her romance with the son of Hmong immigrants.
Chronicles the experiences Andrew and Barney Brayman had while they were fighting in the Civil War and discusses how their enlistment affected their town and family.
In Iowa farm country, sixteen-year-old Aspen and her friend Laurel plan to get noticed the summer before their senior year and are unwittingly aided by pig triplets, a skunk, a chicken, bullies, a rookie policeman, and potential boyfriends.
