Bonnie Baxter and her best friend, Bessie Small, are excited when a moving van backs up to the little old brown house on the corner. Who is moving into such an old rundown place? The summer turns out to be an exciting one, and the children learn lessons on helpfulness, kindness, and forgetting themselves for the good of others.

Contents

• 1. New Neighbors
• 2. Getting Acquainted
• 3. Grandma's Tree
• 4. Grandpa's Plan
• 5. Jack Arrives
• 6. Jack's First Discovery
• 7. Thursday Morning
• 8. The Eggs Are Hatched
• 9. Chippy Fools Jack
• 10. The Storm
• 11. Corn Silk
• 12. How Corn Grows
• 13. The Chrysalis
• 14. A Hot Day
• 15. The Barn Swallows
• 16. Lanterns in the Trees
• 17. Lady With Golden Eyes
• 18. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• 19. Jack's Scare
• 20. Wasp Life
• 21. Jack goes Home