It was Gran who suggested that Father start the bidding on the farm—just to get the ball rolling. Naturally she could scarcely have known it would be knocked down to him. But somehow there was a determined twinkle in her eye as she surveyed her family, fresh from the "gadget life" of a big city, and a certain obstinacy in the way she bustled about getting supper that first night.

Oh, she was very innocent! She didn't exactly tell the Van Keurans that the Prestons were settling in Orange County. And she did faithfully promise Father that she wouldn't raise her voice at the second auction. But the blood of the pioneers ran in Gran's veins, and somehow she saw to it that the Prestons found more to living than indirect lighting and air-conditioning. The open gate bid them come in, and once inside there was the problem of Andy Van Keuran and the homely friendship of Mike Mogor, and most of all the deep inner security of the land itself to hold and keep them.

This is a novel about new things and old, about farms and families and about America. It is an affirmation of faith in the earth itself, and in the value of living close to it. And as it is by Kate Seredy, it is full of humor and jollity, racing  along at break-neck speed. Janet and Dick Preston and Andy Van Keuran would be good friends with Kate and Jancsi of The Good Master and The Singing Tree.

From the dust jacket