A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.

An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Six-year-old Caroline and her older sister Martha share wash-day chores, playing in the snow, and the first day of school in their home on the Wisconsin frontier.

A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

A little pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago. As the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.

Twelve-year-olds Ruby and Simon have been growing apart since their parents moved them to a Wisconsin farm, but weird weather events that seem tied to Simon's emotions bring a stranger into their lives who introduces them to the Makers of Storms Society, strengthening the bond between the twins.

Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.

When Caroline Quiner and her family are forced to move from Brookfield further west, Caroline, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, does her part as they settle in and make a new home.

In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hardworking immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.