Korbie figures her best year is ahead of her. She is in a new school and her best friend Gretchen is in her class. Then both Gretchen and Korbie fall in love, and before Korbie knows it, her life is too complicated!.
Spending Christmas together for the first time in the absence of the father of the house, a mother and daughter fix up old dolls for other little girls.
Presents a profile of frontiersman Daniel Boone, discussing his early life, his success as a hunter and tracker, his determination to settle in Kentucky, his conflicts with the Shawnee, and his impact on American history.
Introduces life in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, as seen through the eyes of Sam Collier, John Smith's page, who works hard while wondering if he has the strength to survive in the New World.
Eight-year-old Amber, still adjusting to her parents' divorce, starts third grade and finds herself torn with jealousy over the new girl Delight, who seems to be stealing away Amber's best friend Mindy.
A nine year old boy and his father leave their farm in Virginia to join other veterans marching on Washington, D.C., to get the much-needed bonus money they had been promised after World War I.