Nellie Sue hopes to make friends with her new neighbors by hosting a hoedown in her barn.

When Willow's family moves to a new home, she makes friends with all of the neighbors, even unsmiling Mr. Larch, through her letters inviting each to be as generous as she is.

Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.

When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.

Lauren and her mother visit the library to find out what there is to do in their new town, and are introduced to the building and its services by their new neighbor, Dan.

Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.

Annie wants to fill every chair in her house's dining room for Thanksgiving dinner, and asks her friend Henry's help in thinking of people to invite.

Old Sarah knits mittens for all the children waiting for the school bus and hangs them on the blue spruce tree at the bus stop.

The Owl and the Woodpecker are anything but friendly neighbors until the day a storm hits their forest.

With her tool box and her talent for fixing things, eight-year-old Makayla tries to mend a neighbor's broken heart.