The one thing Gilly wants is a home of her own. If only she could find her mother, Courtney, and live with her. Instead, she finds herself in yet another ugly foster home, the responsibility of frumpy Maime Trotter, who is almost illiterate.
Trough Rosie is the meanest cow in the herd, five year old Marvin is inconsolable when she is sold and he and his family move to another dairy farm.
While trying to keep track of his many royal commissioners, the king learns some new ways of counting.