Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres.".
A young girl loves her busy, crowded apartment building where neighbors enjoy spending time together in the roof garden, but she becomes very jealous when the new baby her mother is expecting takes attention away from herself.
Tippy Lemmey, the neighborhood dog, is a nuisance and sworn enemy to the local children, but when Tippy gets in trouble, only Leanne, Paul, and Jeannie can help him.
Despite the intrigue of their new riverbank home, the new hippos are not accepted by the others because of their unusual habits, but their sudden disappearance causes a stir in their neighborhood.
Simple text and photographs introduce basic community concepts related to neighborhoods including location, things in a neighborhood, and different types of neighborhoods.
A tour through a very peculiar neighborhood where an assortment of wacky neighbors from Superman to a ship of pirates reacts to the arrival of their new neighbors, a normal human family.
By viewing a detail from a photograph that is revealed on the following page, the reader is invited to guess which place Baby is visiting in the neighborhood.
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
