As winter arrives and the local school closes until summer, the Fairchild children continue their schooling in the parlor with the oldest, Althy, teaching.

The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.

A fifteen-year-old girl does not look forward to spending the summer on her cousins' Kentucky farm, but, as she shares the family's problem of drought, she begins to learn many things about her own interests and capacities.

Thirty Haiku reflect a scene or thought about nature.

A fifteen-year-old girl does not look forward to spending the summer on her cousins' Kentucky farm, but, as she shares the family's problem of drought, she begins to learn many things about her own interests and capacities.