neighborliness

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.

Grumpy Mr. Worst, the worst person in the world, leaves for Florida to avoid the bother of his town's Harvest Festival.

Katy's neighbors appeal to the authorities to silence her extremely loud rooster, but the final result is very different from what they had in mind.