Alexandra, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, becomes a wealthy land owner after she inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
A rich man's daughter has a difficult choice to make: do her duty and accept an arranged marriage, or follow her heart to her one true love. But then the humorous Kingdom of Fairies begins to toy with this funny romantic entanglement, and magic and mischief are spun into the lives of everyone involved.
Young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in a novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.
Ten-year-old orphan Mary Lennox comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.