Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"

Cousin Edward visits Aunt Judy and Uncle Earl on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.

A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night.

A farmer's kiss causes an amusing chain of events on the farm.

Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.

In a hilarious, honest and heartbreaking memoir, the author, after experiencing an economic crisis of epic proportions, chronicles her unexpected journey from country chic to a 100-year-old, mice-infested, snake-ridden cabin in a North Carolina holler where she discovered the true meaning of home.