Jean Van Leeuwen

When her brother goes off to school, Amanda finds new things to do, including ballet dancing, cleaning her room, and making a very sad, mad day go away, with the help of hugs from Mother Pig.

Presents five stories about telling secrets, playing alone, and other activities in the lives of Oliver and Amanda who are sometimes known as Mighty Pig and Amazing Baby Pig.

During Oliver Pig's first day at school, he builds with blocks, plays with his toy dinosaur, and makes a new friend.

When Grandmother Pig comes for a visit, Oliver and Amanda learn just how much fun it is to have a grandmother in the house.

As her family travels by wagon train to Oregon, a young girl gathers scraps of cloth so that she can make a quilt. Includes historical note.

Young Jesse and his family are with a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon when they stop to celebrate the Fourth of July, but Jesse is too young to go hunting with the men so he comes up with his own contribution to the festivities.

Two brothers who cannot apologize to each other extend their feud down through their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Amanda Pig's first day of school is every bit as wonderful as she always hoped it would be.

For almost nine-year-old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small--from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.

Three mice who live in a department store are dismayed when they are accidentally shipped in a care package to a ten-year-old boy in a summer camp in Vermont, but after joining in a few of the activities they find that they like camp life.