A woman fondly reminisces about the experiences she shared with her family throughout the various seasons on their Vermont farm.

Ten-year-old Emma spends a wonderful summer with her cousins, great aunt, and great uncle on their Vermont farm.

During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.

During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this about or their consequences.

The last year of World War I is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy Mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war.