J.J. Smith, the Keeper of the Records for "The Book of Records" has witnessed many extraordinary things in the course of his job, but he has never witnessed true love, until he meets a man who is attempting to eat an entire Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman.
Thirteen-year-old Billy lives with a gang on the streets of New York City stealing for clothes and food. When he is caught, he is given a chance to live with a nice farm family in Nebraska. Is he such a bad kid that he cannot change?.
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father bring home an orphan boy to help with chores, Nate feels even worse.