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When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.

Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

After ten years of marriage, Jeff and Nealy Lang have an idyllic suburban home, and a relationship on the skids. But, when a family of hungry raccoons ransacks their perfectly manicured backyard, Jeff becomes obsessed with eradicating the pests by any means necessary. Soon the relentless rodents aren't merely uprooting the lawn, but also overturning the Langs' entire bourgeois existence, as the man-versus-beast battle leads into an absurd mess of...

Surrounded by parents and siblings with remarkable talents, Sam yearns to be good at something himself, and finds his own special niche when he discovers the pleasures of painting.

While Raccoon is eating pizza at his secret pizza party, he sees a masquerade party going on in the house next door to him and joins the fun.

Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, but his mother tries to convince him that their new home might be even better.

When Chester tells his mother about the school bully, she asks him to gather his friends to hear a story about getting along with people who are prickly.

Hunter the raccoon is not sure what he should do when his best friend Stripe starts acting up at preschool.

Ruby the raccoon paints a picture which unexpectedly shows the best feature of her various friends.