Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep.

At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

The stories of two different boys told in alternating poems, one in which Perry, who's father is missing in action in Vietnam and sister won't reply to his letters, lives with his Gran and takes the train to see his mom on the weekends and during his train rides he notices a young boy racing the train and dreams of a farm life and a close-knit family; In the second, Steve, who loves the train that cuts across his farm and dreams of a life not weighed...

In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.