Harry the dog goes to fantastic lengths to make his neighbor stop singing.

As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.

Chirchir wants to help her family with their daily chores, but each of their tasks proves too challenging for her.

In Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, eleven-year-old Tate writes letters to her favorite country singer, sharing her dreams of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.

In school, children learn to manage their anger by singing a song based on: If you're happy and you know it.

A song coming from a small, high window transforms a lonely boy, a stray cat, an elderly woman, then an entire town, so when the music stops, they come together to save it.

A little blue songbird longs to sing like her sisters. But whenever she tries, she can't get the tune right. Her mother encourages her to leave home and find a song that only she can sing. With courage and tenacity, she travels the world, seeking advice from a crane, an owl, a mean-looking crow, and other birds, hoping they'll lead her to her special song.

As he walks down the street, Pete the cat sings about his brand new white shoes as they change from red to blue to brown to wet.