When the Just-So Woman runs out of butter one day, she learns an important lesson from her neighbor, the Any-Way Man.

A novel told through three distinct points of view--a woman desperately hoping for the return of her rebellious teenage sister, who has been missing for weeks, her hospitalized neighbor, and the newly arrived stranger living in her neighbor's house--uncovers the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones people are born into and the ones they choose.

The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing the houses that surround it. When owner Nick Cox cuts down Allison and Ted Millers' precious red maple-in an effort to make his unsightly property more appealing to buyers-their once serene town becomes a battleground. While tensions between Ted and Nick escalate, other dysfunctions abound:...

When new neighbors move in next door to Sophie, she is startled--and afraid--to discover that they are monsters.

When they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor, a young couple awakens a terrible force.

"Sophie and her dad have been invited to their neighbor Olive's birthday party, on the tenth floor of their apartment building. They bake cookies, which they put on a special platter, and then head to the elevator. At each floor, the elevator stops to let in other party guests. Along the way up, the elevator gets more and more crowded as a diverse cast of neighbors squeeze in. What will be waiting when the elevator reaches the tenth floor?"--

When expectant parents Kate and Justin befriend their neighbors who are also having a baby, things take a sinister turn after tragedy strikes.

When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.

Julius Caesar Brown wants to solve the mystery of the green gas crisis and win the prize.

Lulu has a new next-door neighbor named Arthur and he has a pet rabbit. Of course Lulu must become their friend. But Arthur doesn't seem to want to be her friend. Or play with his rabbit. It's up to Lulu and Mellie to come up with a plan to make Arthur see just how fun rabbits can be.