Thirteen-year-old Eddie's Mitzvah Project takes him to Silver Brook retirement home, where his assumptions about the elderly are upended by a ghost, a thief, long-running disagreements, and unexpected romance.

Jeet is new to town and a little lonely. To combat this, he and his mom start volunteering at a local animal shelter. There, Jeet makes a new friend in a happy puppy, Fudge!

Third-grader Sharonda and her mother help volunteers from their church to build the house that will be their very own.

The Eastern Shore Animal Shelter is set to close its doors in just a few weeks, and sixth-grader Hope Roberts is determined to find a way to raise enough money to save the shelter where she adopted her two dogs; she is already working weekends at a doggy day-care site, but it does not seem like that will raise enough money--so Hope needs to come up with another plan to get the support the shelter needs.

Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.

"Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question. In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers...

Madeline Finn asks her mother for a puppy every single day. Finally, Mom says yes, and Madeline Finn chooses Star, one of the puppies born to Mrs. Dimples dog, Bonnie. Then Mrs. Dimple tells Madeline Finn about animal shelters, a place many other pets come from. After a visit to their local shelter, Madeline has some questions. Does anyone play with the shelter dogs, or snuggle with them, or read to them? Questions lead to answers, and ideas, and...

Madeline Finn le pide a su madre un cachorro todos los días. Por último, mamá dice que sí, y Madeline Finn elige Estrella, uno de los cachorros nacidos de perro señora hoyuelos, Bonnie. Entonces la señora Madeline Dimple dice Finn sobre refugios para animales, un lugar muchos otros animales vienen. Después de una visita a su refugio local, Madeline tiene algunas preguntas. ¿Alguien juega con los perros del refugio, se acurruca con ellos o...

"A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. Includes a recipe and an author's note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book"--