A group of kids from a run-down neighborhood start using an old mansion for a club house and soon discover some mysterious goings-on involving a plot to destroy the mansion for the insurance money.
Although his elegant neighbors do not appreciate his efforts, a kind old man transforms his rundown house and a small neglected pine tree into the best on the street.
On a mission to the big city to save his farm, Babe the pig gets separated from his human, the Boss's Wife and finds himself among unscrupulous thieves and homeless animals.
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
Contains forty-nine short stories of and by black, tan, and sand-colored people living in the cities of contemporary America and dealing with everyday emotions of love and lust, joy and hopelessness.
Compares village life with town life in England, from the Middle Ages to the present, describing how technological developments have blurred the differences.
With the help of her father and a caring neighbor, a twelve-year-old girl living in the inner city tries to cope with growing up, especially with her mother's emotional problems.
When ten-year-old Little Man meets his eccentric neighbor Lucy Johnson, he discovers how her sanctuary of junk sculpture and photographs of dead people is a place where the spirits of the dead can rest in peace.
