A young Portuguese boy on Cape Cod, a little Chinese girl in California, a Mexican brother and sister in New Mexico, a boy of Swedish extraction in the Mid-West, an Italian girl in a city slums, a Jewish boy in the Ghetto, a gypsy girl in country and city, a French girl in La. -- cross sectioning the vast ramifications of foreign influences, traditions customs, paralleling the process of Americanization. Good background material, in fictionized form.