Penny Pollock

In this Indian variant of a familiar story, some turkeys make a gown of feathers for the poor girl who tends them so that she can participate in a sacred dance, but they desert her when she fails to return as promised.

Sixth-grader Wisconsin, also known as Mary Lou, has difficulty adjusting to a new school in a new town, where she is reluctant to admit she wears a hearing aid.

Scarlett, a nervous young filly from a fine family of trotters, finds a home on a run-down farm in Ohio, where she makes friends with a friendly rooster and a motherless goat and calms down enough tofulfil her promise as a harness racer.

A lonely young spittlebug who can't make spit finds his situation improves as he grows older.