In order to figure out why robotic versions of history's greatest scientists and inventors keep going haywire, siblings Nick and Tesla create a gadget glove.

A snowstorm's brewing. Father Squirrel must find a place for his family to stay warm, but another animal is hiding out in every place he finds. Then he discovers the perfect place--a glove that someone's lost. As the family snuggles in, the owner of the glove comes back. What will happen to the squirrel family now?

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves....