Henkes, Kevin

Annie is bored until a walk around the block to visit her neighbors brings several pleasant diversions.

Ruthie does everything with her imaginary friend Jessica; then, on her first day at kindergarten, she meets a real new friend with the same name.

Young Bo spends the summer with his grandfather in the country and has a wonderful time.

A little boy finds more to enjoy in the bath than just washing himself.

Chester and Wilson share the same exact way of doing things, until Lilly moves into the neighborhood and shows them that new ways can be just as good.

When twelve-year-old Ben visits his uncle in Oregon, he feels caught in the strained relationship between his mother and her brother while he also begins to accept himself as an artist.

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, her relationship with her grandmother, her feelings for an older boy, and her plans to be a writer.

Relates twelve-year-old Fanny's love-hate relationship with her father, a temperamental artist, who has given Fanny a new dog.

Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle.

The narrator explains why it is sometimes nice to be alone.