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.

Though Miriam loves her family and life on her Amish farm, troubles with a friend, with a lodger, and with the book-learned tips on improving her relationship with her husband cause Miriam to value the promises of faith.

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.

Amish Kermit and Joy move to Beechwood Acres only to discover that someone is living in an old abandoned range shelter on their property. Then there is the visit from Joy's great-grandmother who brought an old journal written by her mother when she lived in the Conestoga Valley of Lancaster Co., Pa., in the 1700s.

Steven and Annie Petersheim, a newly married Amish couple, begin farming in a settlement in Tennessee. Their first summer there is filled with exciting events.