When fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson witnesses the disappearance of his neighbor's wife, rumored to be a seal-woman, he must help protect the baby she leaves behind from trolls, a witch, and other creatures.

Self-sufficient Kate unexpectedly develops a relationship with her new impractical neighbor.

After moving to a new home, Emma makes friends with the girl next door. Includes questions about the text and notes to parents about visual learning.

A young boy who likes to "wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake, and shocka-shocka" gathers his neighbors together for a surprise celebration.

Mr. Putter is convinced to run in a senior marathon with his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, when he learns that second prize is a train set.

Two dogs who have become best friends through a locked gate decide to help their owners fall in love with one another so that they, Lucky and Squash, can be brothers.

Coco, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves cooking and animals, so when the club decides to plant a vegetable garden to help save snails, organizing a cupcake sale is an obvious idea--but Mika, the new girl next door, is still an unresolved problem. Includes cupcake recipe.

As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.

Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.

A girl named Zola has just moved in next door. New neighbors can make good new friends, but what if Zola already has a best friend? And what if that best friend is something as grand and magical as...an elephant? Surely then there would be little room in Zola's life for an ordinary new friend, right? In this stunningly illustrated book about making a new friend and moving into a new home, two-time Caldecott Honor-winning artist Pamela Zagarenski and...