In this sequel to Two in the Wilderness, the author follows the story of the summer Tabitha and Zeke Aiken lived alone in the family cabin on their Vermont holding, with an account of the fall, winter and spring all the Aikens spent after the arrival of Ma, Pa, the twins and the new baby. They all kept busy building a shelter for the cow and enlarging the cabin, making some furniture and wooden dishes, acquiring pets, harvesting the corn and then "plumping" it, and smoking deer meat and tanning the hides; great youth historical fiction. (3rd book is Wilderness Wedding)