In a small town on the Mississippi River, four men too old to work anymore begin playing cards together, and as the game goes on over months and years, they continually improve the place where they play.
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Bored with doing the same thing all the time, Number Three quits and sets out to see what else he might do then, after trying many other possibilities, finally finds the perfect job.
Piper McCloud's ability to fly sets her apart from the other kids, so her mother sends her to an exclusive school for children with exceptional abilities, but even there she does not fit in with the other students.
Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl, for whom the place is a refuge from problems at home.
When a peacock visits Tuckers' farm, three hens protest all the attention he gets. The wise hound dog suggests they switch places so the hens spend the day strutting around and the peacock must figure out how to lay an egg. Soon everyone realizes the importance of their own job.
Unhappy with her life in a dark cave, Lala longs to live like the princesses far, far above but after venturing into their world, she finds contentment at home.
Fawn wants to leave her family's Pfeffernut County farm and move to the big city as soon as she can and, in the meantime, pretends she is already there, but her friend and neighbor Larry is determined to keep her where she belongs.
