Book excerpt: So it's Saturday again and Momma has a surprise activity planned for the day. Tawny, Sam and Duke are taken on a trip to the local soup kitchen. Momma says that they have to help serve and learn the importance of helping others so that they don't become selfish. As Tawny and her family take the short ride across town she finds out that there is a lot going on with other families outside of their own neighborhood and that some don't have a place to call home. While at the soup kitchen she meets Miss Dorothy, who is in charge of the kitchen and one who gave Tawny the best job ever. Tawny discovers that there are far more important things than getting birthday gifts and making hats for Duke. She now understood that her Momma was right, sometimes people need help and she wanted to be one of those people who helped, because helping others is fun!