These are the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.

A girl and her dog go through a day highlighted by the vivid colors of sunrise, rain, mountains, forests, a rainbow, and sunset.

Cousins from estranged branches of a family spend a summer together in Florida.

Publisher Annotation: Little Ree trades in her city days for a country way of life when she moves with her family to her grandparents? ranch. She?s excited to ride horses, swim in the pond, and help Grandma cook for everyone. But on her first day, she finds that living on a ranch can be tough. She has to get up at the crack of dawn, learn to herd cows, and make sure her horse, Pepper, doesn?t eat everything in sight. And that?s all before breakfast!...

In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.

Stanley goes for a drive on a hot day in the countryside.

Fred is a city fox, but the city can be a scary place. It?s noisy, it?s smoky, and it?s often dangerous. One day, Fred sees a flock of birds flying over the rooftops. Where do they go? he wonders. When a bird tells him about the place called the wild, he decides to go in search of it. Will he find the wild? And what will happen if he does?