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Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.

When Lety jumps at the chance to write animal profiles for the Furry Friends Animal Shelter, she is forced to team up with a grumpy classmate named Hunter, who devises a contest to decide who gets to be the official shelter scribe.

"While at the farmers' market with her mama, Ladybug Girl spies some rescue dogs and, together with the Bug Squad, finds one of them a forever home, vowing to return again to help the others"--

After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.

Marion volunteers at the Santa Vista Arboretum butterfly release and helps her younger sister Gabby overcome her fear of bugs so she can also attend the event.

A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done.

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...

When Sunita joins Dr. Gabe on a house call at a local horse farm, she finds a lonely lamb in one of the stalls, reminding her of her own loneliness as her friends seem to be moving on without her.

Zoe is unhappy about leaving Hollywood to live with her cousin, Maggie, and grandmother, Dr. Mac, in Ambler, Pennsylvania, while her mother is away on a film shoot, but soon gets involved in a suspected case of antifreeze poisoning.