A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text take the reader on a tour around town.

The reader is taken on a journey through a neighborhood and shown the sights, sounds, and smells as evening approaches.

"Takes readers (and listeners) on a rollicking, clanging, clapping tour through the many sounds that fill a neighborhood"--

In search of writing ideas, an author takes a walk with his dog around the neighborhood.

When Lizzie and Ben discover a homeless lady living in their neighborhood, they must reconcile their desire to help her with their mother's admonition not to talk to strangers.

Early in the morning, a bird begins to sing at Number One Fish Street, waking the man next door and his dog, and before long, as one noise leads to another, everyone on the street is awake.

After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.

Navigating private spats and embarrassing secrets in their upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, four families seek purpose and meaningful relationships until a raucous party combusts in a maelstrom of ego clashes, taboo desires, and hidden cameras.