John's House

John Coogan and his family live in Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area. John's house is medium-to-large sized with enough rooms for his parents, John, Abby, and Scooter to have their own rooms. There is a large backyard where Abby stages a war of conservationism against her father's attempts to tame the lawn. Abby tries to turn their backyard into a nature habitat and preserve it in its natural state. John eventually joins her in her quest. The backyard is also the sight of the Thanksgiving Day football game with the whole family. John is proud of his house and is astonished at Penn's house for being so small. Yet although John's house is bigger and filled with toys to play with, a TV to watch, and a big back yard to run around in, the house is empty much of the time since John's parents work so...