Emily visits her eccentric Great-Aunt Nancy Priest at the eerie, Wyther Grange, where a night spent in the “haunted” Pink Room terrifies her.

Emily get's quite a shock when Perry's mom suggests she should marry her son.

On Christmas Day, Emily feels the connection with her Murray side growing.

After Emily accidentally offends Lofty John and provokes him to cut down New Moon’s beloved grove in revenge, the whole household is thrown into misery, and Aunt Elizabeth cruelly blames Emily.

When Emily gets caught writing poetry in her Mathematics class, she faces humiliation from her teacher Ms Brownell and Aunt Elizabeth.

After being saved from a fierce bull by a brave boy named Perry Miller, Emily befriends him when he comes to work at New Moon.

Emily, believing she has eaten a poisoned apple from Lofty John’s workshop, faces her supposed impending death with dramatic courage.

Emily and Ilse have a fierce quarrel over whether their playhouse should have a parlour.

Emily faces a painful betrayal when her friend Rhoda excludes her from a lavish birthday party in favour of a rich new girl. At the same time, Emily asserts her first major act of independence by refusing Aunt Elizabeth's command to cut her hair.

Emily finds a chest full of her father's old books and becomes inspired to connect with her father through her new "Book of Yesterday".