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.
Helen wants to contribute to the war effort after the United States goes to war in 1917--so she joins the Women's Land Army of America, an organization that trains women to do farm work, replacing the workers drafted into the army.
Mandy and her friend James, assisted by Blackie the labrador retriever, help Mandy's grandmother save the village hospital from being closed and, at the same time, save the lives of a newborn lamb and their young neighbor Jenny.
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
When Burdock, a young barn cat, sneaks into the house to get warm he hears that the farmer, Dewey Baxter, has terrible plans that will endanger all the animals, and he leads them in an attempt to escape before it is too late.
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
