"We're not rich, Papa." "Yes we are, boy. We have one another to fend to, and this land to tend." When young Rob Peck saves a neighbor's cow, the neighbor gives him a pig as a reward. Pinky is Rob's constant companion as he juggles backbreaking farm work with the schooling that is so important to his father. Pinky is a pet and a friend, but on a farm, every animal must have its use. And on a farm, even a boy must sometimes be a man. Will the support...

Zelly Fried wants a dog more than anything, so at the urging of her grandfather, during the summer before sixth grade she takes care of a "practice dog" made out of an orange juice jug to show her parents that she is ready for the responsibility, even though she is sometimes not entirely sure about the idea.

Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.

As a Young Scientist, twelve-year-old Addie studies pollution in the lake where her twin brother recently drowned, while secretly continuing his investigation of the creature he believed lives in the lake's depths.

The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.

In Vermont, the trials of Rob Peck, a 13-year-old boy who takes over the family farm when his father dies. The cow goes dry, the ox dies, there follows the worst drought in memory--one disaster after another, but he takes them like a man. By the author of A Day No Pigs Would Die.

In the fourth adventure in the Sneaky Pony series, Keeker and Plum have discovered all kinds of surprising things on the farm: a baby bird to take care of, a family of groundhogs living in the field. They also learn that Mrs. Dana's horse is going to have a baby. But soon Keeker and Plum get tired of being ignored and Keeker decides staging a play will be just the thing to win back her parents' attention. By the time the play is over, Keeker and Plum...

While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."

Two young brothers help their Dad in another season of sugaring off, the process by which maple syrup is made. The process of collecting maple tree sap in buckets, to boiling it down into syrup is described here as it follows this family's day of creating this sweet treat. The book ends with a typical New England tradition of pouring fresh, hot syrup over snow and a reward for the hard work.

After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders.