A girl and her mother spend a day together gardening, making cookies, and visiting a neighbor. Includes Spanish words interspersed in the text.

A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.

When she goes to work with her mother on a Saturday, Adventure Girl uses her own special methods to help find a missing report.

A little girl is fascinated by her mother's sari and finds many uses for it.

When a young girl has a series of mishaps at home one day, her mother tries not to lose her temper--and does not quite succeed.

A seven-year-old girl is amazed when her mother's singing suddenly begins to make her listeners float, but Grandma says she must stop, making Mama terribly sad until her daughter makes her smile again.

Annie Claire, excited but nervous about her first day of school, is reassured by her mother, whose love always goes with her.

Thirteen-year-old Kat, still not comfortable in her role as a medium, and her friend Jac, undergoing a serious crisis about the role of music in her life, try to find a way to help the unhappy spirit of a young boy in the abandoned house next door.

The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter.