Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.

"When Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, no one can imagine the solitary old man caring for a child. But the two grow to love each other, and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Johanna Spyri's charming story-and spirited heroine-have won hearts for more than a century." -Provided by Publisher

Family members compose verses to the folk song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" to describe an expected visitor.

In 1937 rural Kentucky, Cora Mae starts a school newspaper to rally support for the Rural Electrification Act, but the town's resistance to change is not easy to overcome.

A family makes preparations, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the angel who will come up the mountain bringing a new baby.

A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.