Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

"Pull on your boots for a day out on the farm."

When New York City native Becket Branch moves to the country with her family to help run her grandmother's farm and store, she finds that new friends, hostile chickens, sour lemonade and mischief are only the beginnings of her new life.--

Anne, una huérfana de once años, es enviada por error a vivir con un hermano y una hermana solteros de mediana edad en su casa de Tejas Verdes, y por primera vez conseguirá tener un lugar al que, al fin, podrá llamar hogar. Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is mistakenly sent to live with a middle-aged single brother and sister in their Green Gables home, and for the first time she will have a place she can finally call home.

When Timmy Willie from the country and Johnny Town-Mouse visit one another, they get a taste of each other's very different lives. Sometimes, there really is no place like home!

Black and white illustrations and text record the sights on a day trip to the city and back home again to the country. The trip to the city is read from front to back and the return trip from back to front, upside down.