Orr, Wendy

When her parents take her to visit a very special pet store in the park across from her apartment, both Sophie and Mr. and Mrs. Noah, the pet store owners, have their secret wishes filled.

When Mona McNeil returns to visit her grandparents' farm as an adult, she recalls the summer she spent there raising Kiki, a lion cub she got as an eighth birthday gift from her uncle Matthew--an experience the led her to open the Rainbow Street Animal Shelter.

Finding a horse in the park, Amy, who is crazy about horses, takes it to the Rainbow Street Shelter and secretly hopes the owner never turns up.

Megan, a little girl, awakes one morning with a cold and cannot go to daycare. So her mother takes her to work at her office.

Mona at the Rainbow Street Shelter finds the perfect home--and job--for an energetic beagle puppy who loves to sniff.

Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new E-mail friend could be the only one who can help.

Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new E-mail friend could be the only one who can help.

Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family.