When the Just-So Woman runs out of butter one day, she learns an important lesson from her neighbor, the Any-Way Man.

When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.

Although he would rather be sipping an ice cream soda, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby attend a cooking class with Mrs. Teaberry and her dog Zeke, where they learn 100 ways to cook beans.

After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.

When Amedeo moves to the Navy town of St. Malo, Florida, he finds an unlikely friend in William Wilcox when, while working together on a house sale for Amedeo's eccentric neighbor, they become caught up in a story that dates back to Nazi Germany, which teaches them the true meaning of heroism.

After making a special Christmas gift for their elderly neighbor, two sisters find just what they wanted under their tree.

When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over.

Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.

A young boy who likes to "wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake, and shocka-shocka" gathers his neighbors together for a surprise celebration.