The further adventures and misadventures of nine-year-old Ali Baba Bernstein.

In early twentieth-century Vermont, sixteen-year-old Emma confides in her diary both her hopes of becoming a farmer's wife one day and her frustrations with her parents' belief that she is too young to be courted by the handsome Cole Berry.

Presents a list of common proverbs, along with an explanation of what proverbs are and where they come from.