Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.

As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

Emmy, who is nervous about moving to the big city from the country because she loves riding horses, meets Belle, an American Quarter Horse, at a park stable near her new home, which helps her to feel better.

Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.

Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.

Earth Day is coming, and Kylie Jean and the other second graders decide that the perfect way to celebrate is to clean up and beautify the school playground--and the whole town.

"When a sandwich goes missing, it seems that a bear is the unlikely culprit." -- By now I think you know what happened to your sandwich. / But you may not know how it happened. / So let me tell you. / It all started with the bear.. So begins Julia Sarcone-Roach's delicious tale of a bear, lost in the city, who happens upon an unattended sandwich in the park. The bear's journey from forest to city and back home again is full of happy accidents, funny...

Throughout the seasons the workers at the Village Garage are busy taking care of the town and its residents.

Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.

A boy describes the building, people, weather, games, and activities he can observe from his window in a favela, a neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. Includes notes about favelas and the author's experiences growing up in one.