Summary: Stuck in their apartment building on a rainy day, brothers Sam and Ben hear a harmonica playing and go on a search for the source of the music. They track it down to Apartment 3 and befriend the crabby blind man who lives there.

Summary: Tokee reluctantly goes to Auntee Edna house in rural America for a summer. This story carries fine lessons on kinship, loyalty, and family heritage for children.

Summary: Though she's old and not very fast, Belle is a loyal and brave horse. She carries her trusted owner, Molly, safely home during an icy, blinding blizzard.

Summary: In this retelling of a familiar Jewish tale, two brothers promise their dying father that they will always take care of each other. They share the duties on the family farm, and when times are tough, the brothers both perform an act of kindness. Each man secretly smuggles food to the other's storage cellar.

Summary: As the fourth daughter of an emperor who also had four sons, tiny Princess Djeow Seow is barely a speck in her family's universe. She spends her days alone, flying her favorite stick-and-paper kite. When her father is taken prisoner by enemies, it is Djeow's Loyalty, Courage and Love (and her kite) that eventually saves him. Young's stark, evocative watercolors will surely hold young readers' interest.

Summary: Best friends Frog and Toad help and enCourage each other through good times, bad times and even an occasional crabby mood.

Summary: An African American boy fondly recalls the commitment, fun, and affection of his family’s annual reunions in North Carolina.

Summary: Jamaica is angry with her disruptive classmate Russell until she realizes he’s upset about moving away. She changes her mind and gives him a going-away present to show her loyalty.

Summary: Times were very hard during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The drought and dust storms that created the Dust Bowl in a large section of the country put many farms out of business. When Leah's family's farm experiences trouble, she sells her beloved pony to raise enough money to buy back her father's tractor at a bank auction.

Summary: Rosie learns that her friendship with and devotion to Lucille are more valuable than a missing ribbon.

Summary: When Johnny Chapman, son of apple farmers, was a young man, he set out to plant apple trees in the "wilderness" west of his Massachusetts home. He was kind to every person and creature he met, becoming almost one with nature. He became known as the legendary Johnny Appleseed, planting apples throughout the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana river valleys during the early 1800s.