When ten-year-old Nicki Fleming, who is a natural with animals, volunteers to help her mother train a service dog, she doesn't realize how much responsibility she's taking on and how much she'll have to give up along the way.
When Sam the cat becomes too big to fit through the cat flap, the Robinson family realizes that even though they have been feeding him, they have neglected him in other ways.
Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
Teaches children about global warming, and discusses the causes and effects on the animals and the environment, renewable energy, global solutions, and other related topics; and offers tips and advice on ways to prevent global warming.
Kevin Simon is a skateboarder with two friends who keep getting him into trouble but when, as a punishment, his parents assign him to work for old Mr. Belmont cleaning up his property, Kevin finds that hard work sometimes has its own rewards.
Eight-year-old Just Grace and her best friend Mimi embark on a campaign to convince Grace's parents that they are responsible and dependable enough to get a dog.
After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom.
Dora Anne is a doll that has been in Kate's family for 150 years, and Kate sets out to prove to her mother that she is old enough to take care of the special doll.
