"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--

George is excited to attend his first sleepover, but he doesn't anticipate how worried he will feel, and luckily, his friends are there to help him overcome his homesickness.

"When Hamish takes the train to visit the city for the first time, he makes new friends and even gets a job on a construction site. But soon he's thinking of home and Noreen, the friend he left behind"--Back cover.

Tara begins her visit with Gran unhappy and bored, but when the man in the apartment downstairs allows others in the building to use his garden, she not only has a place to play, she learns what it was like to be a child during World War II. Includes facts about evacuees and victory gardens.

"Amy, who has never spent a night away from home, declares that she wants to spend not one night but three nights at her grandma's house. So she packs a bag, and off she goes. She and Grandma have a lovely time until Amy is alone in her bed and starts to worry. Luckily she has brought three things from home to help her get through the night in remarkable ways"--Page [2] of cover.

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.

Worried about the future of the cat café, Ellie and Blake investigate a rumour at the local park. It's the perfect place to test their new ability to understand animals, and there's a bird who's happy to talk. Shazza the cockatoo is loud, bossy and obsessed with 'numnums'. All she wants is to return to Australia. But for now she'll settle for inviting herself home with Ellie and Blake, who soon learn that getting along with animals can be just as...

When Aunt Betty arrives at the Willis family's Wyoming ranch from California, Winnie is tasked with training her aunt's homesick horse Buck, something that Winnie finds hard to understand until she is invited to her first sleepover.