Packing for a long journey in a covered wagon is hard, especially when your best friend is a chicken. Faith is traveling west to California in the year eighteen fifty. Her father says her pet hen Josefina is too old to lay eggs and too tough to eat, making her useless for the difficult trip. But Faith begs to bring her, and her father reluctantly agrees. As the wagon train bumps along the dusty trail, Faith sews beautiful patches for a special quilt. Every square she creates tells a part of their grand adventure. Josefina manages to cause quite a bit of trouble along the way, and those funny moments become patches on the quilt too. But when the family faces real challenges on the trail, this troublesome little hen might just find a surprising way to prove her worth. Join Faith and her feathery friend on a heartwarming pioneer journey you will never forget.