Presents the story of Wangari Maathai who left Kenya to go to college in America. When she returned home she was struck by how the clearing of land had harmed both the land and the people of Kenya. She started a movement to reforest the nation.

Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.

A mouse sets out to overcome a lifelong fear of the forest.

The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.

Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.