Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

Ricki's life is sometimes difficult, with her father's nagging her about grades and her mother's preoccupation with work, but the teenager's main concern is Diablo, a horse who is being seriously mistreated by his owner.

Ms. Lake and her class have tended to an egg-hatching project and are eager to welcome four ducklings into the world. One duckling, Lemon, is unable to stand up. What can be done to help Lemon?

When Mandy and James observe SPCA inspector Danny Davies and his beagle, Sasha, on patrol, things taken an unexpected turn when Sasha is injured.

Skye, old Mr. Bradshaw's beautiful collie, needs a new home. Neil and Emily are sure she would fit in perfectly at King Street Kennels.

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Amy visits her friend Carey and at first assumes that Carey needs help with her unruly horse Mustang. Later, Amy wonders why Carey is surprisingly cold towards both her and the horse.

"At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. When Mandy's dad diagnoses an Old English sheepdog puppy as deaf, Mandy feels sorry for it. But it isn't until she finds another sheepdog puppy weak and abandoned that she and James begin to get suspicious. Could a local breeder be mistreating these poor puppies?"--P. [4] of cover.

An act of tender compassion is given (and repaid) in secret during an icy winter night. "One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden of new life, nourished by compassion and kindness....