Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.
A number of changes are taking place in fifth-grader Aaron's life: business at the family pet shop is declining, forcing his parents to consider selling the store; luxury condominiums are going up on the land that houses a community garden, displacing the homeless woman who lives there; and Aaron gets to know his seemingly perfect classmate Sharon when she begins to tutor him in math.
Lottie makes her dachshund, Sophie, jealous by taking an interest in rescuing a rabbit from the non-magical pet shop, resulting in the dog running away; and prepares herself for change after learning her father is still alive.
Eleven-year-old Lottie and her familiar, Sofie the dachshund, wonders if she can trust her new friend Ruby with the secret of her uncle's magical pet shop.
Lottie is not enthused about having to spend the summer with relatives she hardly knows, but is comforted by the fact that they own a pet shop, and things get even better when she is talking to the animals one day and they start to talk back.
Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.
