Feeling somewhat abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old Sage is sent to spend the summer at the Maine home of her great-aunts, where she learns about and begins to identify with her family's history.
Provides real-life examples of ways that young people and their families can reach out as volunteers to help others cope with tragedies or just to make their communities better places in which to live.
Young Flora keeps a journal of her time in a textile mill after leaving an orphanage to live with her aunt and uncle, covering the dangers of being injured or going deaf, her feelings over losing her parents at a young age, and her struggle to help her relatives survive.
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
Text and photographs present the home, work, school, recreations, and day-to-day activities of the Michel family who live in a small town in the Champagne region of France. Also includes general facts about the country.
