When Rachel helps Mr. Thomas with his tomato crop, they end up with way to many tomatoes, so Rachel and Mr. Thomas distribute the tomatoes to the neighbors, and Mr. Thomas gets to know the neighbors in the process.

Sam is busily getting ready for his birthday pool party, but has to postpone it several times because of the weather and his sickness. He has to look several times at the thermometer to check the weather and then his father has to take Sam's temperature when he get's sick.

A story about two children who try to build a snowman taller than a tree teaches young readers about measuring size.