An Amish community gathers to erect a barn in one day, and finishes in time for the owner's cows to be milked there that very evening.

"Lizzie Glick longs to fit into her quiet Amish community. Her sisters, Emma and Mandy, are ready to get married and settle into the traditional rhythm of having children and keeping house. But Lizzie isn't sure that's what she wants for her future. It isn't that Lizzie doesn't want to stay Amish. It's just that there's so much to figure out! Stephen, her quiet, gentle friend, hints that he might be interested in a relationship deeper than friendship,...

Rachel's impatience causes her all sorts of problems during a long winter.

In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.

A young Amish girl tells her "silent friend," her diary, about all the wonderous experiences she has on her first trip to a city, Chicago.

"Simon can't stop thinking about the pretty Amish teacher at the local one-room school. But he's ignored the sparks between them because he's so shy. So Simon's little brother Isaac takes matters into his own hands!"--Jkt. flap.