neighbors

Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.

The boys at school think James is a freak and he isn?t sure they?re wrong. He?s fifteen and possesses a genius level IQ. He has no friends and his grandmother thinks it?s the 1960?s, but none of these are his biggest problem. James is gay and totally incompetent with social interaction. He?s also attracted to a man old enough to be his father. His situation seems hopeless until he meets Lincoln and Taylor, two boys who begin to teach him how to interact with others and deal with being different.

Ivy and Bean decide to write a newspaper in order to buy some special cheese, but their sweep through the neighborhood leads to interesting stories and even more interesting reactions after their neighbors read it. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.

A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done.

A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done.

"Two solitary children living in two different apartment buildings have nothing in common except compassion for an old man and his dog"--OCLC.

King the golden retriever struggles to communicate with his human, Kayla, as both try to clear Thor of having trashed Mr. Gary's yard.

"Grace thinks Larry's garden is one of the wonders of the world. In his tiny backyard next door to hers, Larry grows the most extraordinary vegetables. Grace loves helping him--watering and weeding, planting and pruning, hoeing and harvesting. And whenever there's a problem--like bugs burrowing into the carrots or slugs chewing the lettuce--Grace and Larry solve it together. Grace soon learns that Larry has big plans for the vegetables in his special garden. And when that garden faces its biggest problem yet, Grace follows Larry's example to find the perfect solution"--Provided by the publisher.

Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.