Pollyanna is hit by a car and loses the use of her legs.

To save their friend T.J.

The book ends with Molly Bloom’s long interior monologue, closing with her remembering her youth and saying yes.

Stuart Little, a mouse born into a human family in New York, sets off to find his friend Margalo, a bird who fled after hearing a cat plotting to eat her.

Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan in 1936 Michigan, finds jazz bandleader Herman E.

Drifter Frank Chambers and Cora Papadakis murder Cora’s husband Nick and escape conviction through a lawyer’s trick.

Jimmy Marcus, believing his childhood friend Dave Boyle murdered his daughter Katie, kills Dave by the river.

Roz, a robot who washed ashore on a wild island and learned to survive by raising an orphaned gosling named Brightbill, is badly damaged when the RECO robots come to take her back.

Fourteen-year-old Jacob Barber’s murder trial collapses when another man confesses and dies.

Ivan, a silverback gorilla who has lived for twenty-seven years in a cage at a shopping-mall circus, keeps his promise to the dying elephant Stella to rescue the baby elephant Ruby.