neighborliness

Lauren and her mother visit the library to find out what there is to do in their new town, and are introduced to the building and its services by their new neighbor, Dan.

Peter Lovenheim tells the story of how he got to know his neighbors by sleeping over at their houses because of a murder-suicide that took place in his community of Rochester, New York.

Larry does not like it when his loud, flashy grandmother comes to visit, especially when she talks about taking him to Tanzania or the South Seas one day, but after a huge summer storm damages their home and valley, he sees another side of Grammy Lamby.

When a family of pigs moves in next door, the rabbit George wants nothing to do with them, but he finally gives in and finds out they are not so bad after all.

Determined to be a good big sister, Rex starts spending all her time with the baby her family has adopted, making her neighbor Pinky fear that he has lost her friendship.

Rex and her best friend Pinky are upset to learn that their friend and neighbor Mrs. Morgan is moving, and it looks like a family with an obnoxious boy named Ollie is set to move in.

Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.

Although Harvey starts out on a sunny morning, by the time he has finished helping his neighbors, it does not look as though he will be able to enjoy a day at the beach.

A young girl finds a way to include her elderly neighbor in her family's Hanukkah celebration.

Although terrified of dogs, nine-year-old Sara forces herself to face a Labrador retriever and a Dalmatian in order to help her next-door neighbor, who has fallen and broken her leg.