The unexpected gift of a new fire truck for the tiny, isolated fishing village of New Auckland is nearly overshadowed by the arrival of the man who comes to build the fire house--bringing a surprising trick with him.
In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.
