Presents an introduction to the Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient indian cultures of Ohio, including information on their history, culture, and daily life, as well as describing their mound building activities.
After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.
Kate Burkholder, offered the job of chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish community where she grew up, believes she has securely put her past behind her, but the discovery of a body in a snowy field makes her realize she has to confront what happened to her as a child and expose a dark secret that could destroy her and those she loves.
When eleven-year-old Nell finds a tiny baby squirrel on the ground in her yard, she begs her parents to let her raise it as a pet, even after the research she does shows that this is not a good idea.
In an Ohio hospital neonatal intensive care unit, a friendship develops between two volunteer grandmothers, Martha and Nettie Lee, who come from very different backgrounds.
In 1946 Mandy feels trapped on her stern Aunt Bess's northern Ohio sheep farm, but as time goes on she finds herself getting involved with helping to tend the sheep.
