After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.

Grumpy Old Man Fookwire's new neighbor has a cat that threatens his beloved birds, but some pesky squirrels figure out a way to solve the problem.

Two girls who share a birthday and palindromic names struggle with respective parental challenges and loneliness while gradually overcoming their differences to become close friends.

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

Mabel, who is the only child on her block, tries to find an adult to play with or help, but all of her neighbors are busy and she and her dog Jack must make their own fun.

Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.

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...

Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.