After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.

"Twelve-year-old Mary was disabled at the age of four by the same virus that took the life of her mother. While she longs to have a horse of her own, she's limited to reading horse books. A talented artist, she spends her days on a blanket in the grass sketching the horses at the farm next door. She falls in love with one of the foals and is outraged to learn the filly is considered worthless as it was born lame."--Back cover. Mary befriends and enlists...

A possum and a muskrat become friends despite their many differences.

Summary: Maisy the mouse andher friend Charley clean her house together and then treat themselves to cupcakes.

When a new boy comes to town and starts taking cases away from Klooz, they decide to have a duel to find the best detective in town.

When Pooky runs out of time to pick enough berries for her Beastie Berry pies, her friends pitch in to help.

Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.

Charlie and the rest of the gang are very unhappy when Linus and Lucy move away.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...

Big Hasuni, a lonely giant, accidentally makes a mess when he goes to an island to investigate the smoke he has seen.