Nine stories of industrious French Canadians including one about a father who taught his children to answer questions for themselves and another about the rivalry between the blue-sashed Montreal Le Blancs and the red-sashed Quebec Le Blancs.
An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.
A twelve-year-old girl looks forward to a summer filled with many events especially showing her half-sisters, arriving from boarding school, how grown up she is.
Whenever Jean-Claude's ideas bring him scoldings he runs across the way to his grandparents' house, but one summer, when they leave Canada for a visit to France and Jean-Claude's father buys a new tractor, the youngster's problems involve his whole family.
A young French Canadian boy, who wants an accordion more than anything, attaches a note telling of his wish to a Christmas tree which will be sold in the United States.
