Emily comes up with a wonderful way to cheer her grandmother when the elderly woman is forced to leave her house on Maple Street after many, many years and move to Forest View Retirement Home.
Crystal and her Gramama go every Saturday to pet the horses that belong to Gramama's neighbor, but when her favorite horse is hurt, Crystal and Gramama's rush to help results in a very nice reward.
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
While visiting her grandmother, Nora joins with the animated toys from an old chest to bring the stars down from the night sky, but their loss makes the day black and sad.
Lulu is staying with her grandmother and wishes she had a pony so she could ride with Pam and Anna and then they could be friends--Pony Pals. When Lulu finds a pony in danger, she wants to help the wounded animal, will she be able to save it?.
When her Mennonite family moves to Upper Canada to avoid involvement in the Civil War, young Selina is given a special quilt to remember the grandmother she left behind.