Intimidated and dejected by the other animals' stories about the important gifts brought by their ancestors to the stable where Jesus was born, Pippin the pig performs an act of kindness and discovers the true meaning of Christmas giving.
When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.
A small dog helps a young girl with cerebral palsy overcome her problems when she leaves the school for handicapped children to attend a regular school.
A collection of poems and brief vignettes from the perspective of a girl named Kate Bloomfield, reflecting her views of friendship, school, family life, and the world.
Before beginning his training as a Seeing Eye dog, Shakespeare, a labrador retriever who understands human speech, is placed for his first year of life with a foster child who has never learned to love.
