After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....

Mrs. McNosh hangs up her wash with such gusto that her clothesline ends up holding the dog, a Christmas wreath, a kite, and other odd items.

A youngster experiences the emotions of being the last to be picked up at school.

A young boy protects and encourages a newly hatched sea turtle until it finds its way to the sea.

Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends.

Different animals ask to join a fish in a tub until the tub is full.

From morning to night, a young child playfully grabs and throws items, including a bathtime rubber ducky and snacktime raisins.

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.

Mac finally convinces his best friend Cheese to go to the beach, but then they miss the bus.