Presents a descriptive list of all the things required to have a Christmas like the author's grandmother had, including farm animals, stories of Scotland, ice skating in the moonlight, and joining friends, family, and neighbors at church on Christmas Eve.

Upon learning that an older woman has moved into the run-down, creepy Crab Apple Hill Farm, nine-year-old Keeker rides her pony, Plum, over to find out whether the woman is a witch.

Keeker decides to put on a play in the hopes of getting her parents' attention off their pregnant horse and back onto Keeker, but her plan backfires when an unexpected ending causes chaos on the farm.

Tells the stories of families living in rural Vermont in the mid 1900's.

A woman fondly reminisces about the experiences she shared with her family throughout the various seasons on their Vermont farm.

During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this about or their consequences.

With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.