Come Join Clifford for lots of school-time fun. Teacher's Pet: On the first day of school, T-Bone is nervous. Luckily, Clifford and Cleo are there to help him feel just fine. Nobody's Perfect: At silly sports day, Charlie can't quite juggle gelatin. But even if you're not good at something, it can be lots of fun to try. Clifford and the Beanstalk: Emily Elizabeth is the star of the school play, and guess whose tail makes the beanstalk? Get Well: Emily Elizabeth is in bed with a bad cold.

In 1777, Anne Secord and her children are rescued from the destruction of the Loyalist settlements in the Mohawk Valley, and brought to British-held Fort Niagara. The Loyalist refugees subsequently cross the river, and establish a new colony. The Secord family settles at Lundy's Lane. With the War of 1812, men from of Anne's extended family serve in the militia, in support of the British Regular regiments. A bloody conflict ensues to defend the fledgling Upper Canada. Farms and homesteads in the Niagara frontier are devastated repeatedly. At Harvard College, Samuel Clifford is exposed to revolutionary foment, against his Loyalist parents' convictions. The day before he leaves home for his second year, he is terrified by a hideous vision. He joins Washington's army. What he discovers convinces him to desert. He makes his way to British-held New York. After the revolution, he rejoins his family at Lundy's Lane. He becomes that settlement's school teacher. Samuel finds himself drawn into the horror of an American civil war. He deplores the wanton slaughter, with cousin killing cousin. He sees himself still American, born and raised, yet he cannot return. Christmas in 1814: he experiences another vision, that of a red dawn, with what it portends.