friendship

Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoe shine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes.

While spying on her New York City neighborhood with a new friend, Annie, twelve-year-old Harriet decides that the only way to learn Annie's many secrets is to spy on her, as well.

New to the neighborhood, Thomas is shy about making friends until he wears a tiger suit on Halloween.

First-grader Freddy wants to give his best friend Jessie a special, secret valentine, but to do that he must break some rules at home and avoid the bully at school.

Sylvie and her friend True, a giant water snake, share a small apartment in a big city and have a good time together.

A case of mistaken identity leads to hilarious results when Fox and Rabbit set out to visit an uncle in the city.

When friends Duck, Toad, and Otter each receive an envelope containing nothing but a rose and a sheet of paper with a heart drawn on it they are first puzzled, then jealous, as they try to find out who sent the mysterious gifts and why.

Katani tries to juggle the demands of school work and a Think Pink fundraiser while working on her submission for a contest for young entrepreneurs held by "T-Biz" magazine and worrying that her competitor, Betsy, will write a better essay due to the growing popularity of her tutoring service.

Maeve Kaplan-Taylor believes her lifelong dream of becoming a movie star is about to come true.

At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a student council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers.