neighborliness

Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.

Each time Marklee gets a new neighbor he's excited to make a new friend, but the giraffe who just moved in downstairs seems to be a real grump.

Through a spirit of cooperation, a neighborhood is saved temporarily from the adverse effects of an architectural and environmental disaster.

Annie wants to fill every chair in her house's dining room for Thanksgiving dinner, and asks her cousin Henry's help in thinking of people to invite.

Mrs. Morgan, who is very fussy and protective about her front yard, confiscates all the soccer balls, baseballs, and other kinds of balls that land there while neighborhood children are playing.

Ottie Slockett finally learns that the way to be friends with his neighbors is not to be a meddler.

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the value of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

When Glenna gives away a packet of flower seeds, it sets off a chain of kind events among her neighbors.

Sent to buy special butter for Mama Pearl's candied sweet potatoes and told to get back lickety-split, Little Cliff is delayed by all his neighbors when they want to contribute their own ingredients.

Ben is unhappy at the prospect of leaving his home and friends and moving to another country, until a dream helps him realize the importance of the work he and his parents will be doing for Habitat for Humanity.