When the elder Petersheims buy a farm for young Omar, his sister comes to keep house for him, and together they make a new home for the mischievous Dannie.
Joe and Arie, a young Amish couple, try to get through their first summer on their farm with the help of Joe's younger sister Nancy and brother Steven.
When twelve-year-old Mary spends a summer working on her sister's farm in an Amish community, she learns that there is more than one kind of housekeeping.