A young girl lives with her awful cousins and reads Peter Pan to escape from her misery. One day she escapes with her youngest cousin. She runs into a group of street children or "lost boys", joins them and treats them like a mother.
Büyük Buhran döneminde Ozark Dağları'nda geçen hikâyede Billy Coleman, iki av köpeği yavrusu satın alma hayalini gerçekleştirmek için iki yıl boyunca çalışır ve kazançlarını biriktirir. "Old Dan" ve "Little Ann" ile birlikte Cherokee topraklarının nehir yataklarında dolaşırken, macera ve trajedi dolu ezici zorluklarla karşılaştıkça Tanrı'ya olan güveni artar.
Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.