While helping his father on his coal boat along the canal, nine-year-old Asa discovers what it really means to make a full hand when a brutal storm threatens their mission, in an exciting story that is filled with interesting information about old-time canal freighting.

Six stories describe the experiences of two sisters growing up in Brooklyn in the time of Shirley Temple movies and trolleys.

Since Puppy is so happy in his new home with a girl who hugs him and rubs his tummy, he decides that he is going to be a perfect puppy, but he soon learns that everyone makes mistakes and that his owner loves him just the way he is!

In a dreary Pennsylvania coal-mining town, the Polish community does not like the Irish community and vice versa, but when Keara Buckley and Stefan Pazik fall in love, the whole town must learn to get along. Jr Lib Guild.