Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

A boy thinks about the life of a little black crow that he sees, wondering where it goes in the snow, where it sleeps, and whether or not it worries like he does.

An owl helps a farmer and some crows reach a compromise over the rights to the wheat crop.

"Crow sets out on a journey to find the happiest bird alive, but even the glamorous peacock has its own reasons to not be content"--

Thomas becomes a substitute scarecrow when the local farmer needs some extra help.

Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad is the only one who has been able to see and hear her since the accident, and he's drowning in grief. But now they have a mystery to solve, a mystery Beth hopes will remind her detective father that he needs to reconnect with the living. The case takes them to a remote Australian town, where there's been a suspicious fire. All that remains are an unidentifiable body and an unreliable...

"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--