Nine-year-old Gregory paints pictures representing the life of the Mexican-American old man known as Uncle Pancho and attempts to save him from losing his house.
A professor with a reputation for being unafraid of ghosts moves with his family into a house that is supposed to be haunted but his children find the neighbors more mysterious than the house.
"A biography of the Indian who went to London with some of the first English explorers, was sold into slavery in Spain, and finally returned to America where he befriended the Pilgrims when they landed.".
A novice wood carver is momentarily defeated when people laugh at the result of a winter of work. Then he learns that there are different reasons for laughter.
