Okimoto, Jean Davies

A grumpy old man and a shy young cat form an unlikely friendship at a Minnesota inn which provides its guests with a cat for the night.

A teenage Asian girl who has been adopted by non-Asian parents decides to find out who her biological parents are.

After fighting with his best friend and vowing to hate him forever, eight-year-old Henry attends a Seattle Mariners baseball game, where his great-grandfather explains that enemies can sometimes become friends again.

Winston, a great white bear who hunts from the ice of Hudson Bay near the town of Churchill, Manitoba, rallies his fellow polar bears to protest the human activities that are causing the planet to warm and melting the ice of the bears' traditional hunting grounds.

Sixteen-year-old Jason feels alone and misunderstood when his best friend moves away, his father plans to remarry, and his step-brother-to-be is a high school basketball star, until he starts an online relationship with a girl from Hawaii.

Across North America, people in four different homes prepare for a special trip to China, while four baby girls in China await their new adoptive parents.