Central Kansas Library System

In three brief stories, two fox sisters meet the boy next door, play pirates, and camp out in the yard in sleeping bags.

Mr. Putter and Tabby go to their neighbor's house to make soup, but Zeke the dog makes it very difficult for them.

Thirteen-year-old Callie is determined to save and raise a beautiful but sickly mustang foal after the filly is orphaned in a Nevada desert round-up.

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies--he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems to...

Fleeing from the advances of gold-digging women, wealthy businessman Vance Banning reinvents himself as an out-of-work carpenter in a rural town where he finds himself falling under the spell of his beautiful and persistent neighbor, Shane Abbott.

The world of seven-year-old Robert, a farm boy in Vermont during the Depression, is populated by plain country people who "sparkle" despite their hardships.

On Clifford's first Halloween, he and his friends decide the mysterious howling coming from the new neighbor's apartment is a monster.