In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.

Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason he looks different from the rest of his family is that he is really the lost prince of Shampoon.

When her favorite teacher goes away and leaves a strict substitute behind in his place, Clementine is torn between putting in motion her sneaky plan to coax Mr. D'Matz back to school and leaving him be to enjoy his adventure.

Frannie must rethink her dream of becoming a veterinarian after she and Elliott, her future assistant, cause chaos by letting her Aunt Magoo's dog, Bark, loose in a veterinarian's waiting room.

As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.

When Callie's little brother Travis brings home an abandoned baby squirrel and names him Fluffy, Mother isn't so sure that Fluffy will make a good family pet, and neither is Thud, the cat. Can Fluffy find a home in the Tate household?

A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.

With a veterinarian mother and farmer father, Jasmine Green was bound to love animals so when she visits a new litter of piglets and finds a neglected runt, she is determined to save it--secretly.