Eight-year-old Joe has two Christmas wishes--the largest tree in town and his own pocketknife--but uses them to help reopen the mines in Coaltown.
A ten-year-old boy named Lincoln gets to see the Lincoln Memorial and helps unwittingly to solve a bank robbery.
By trying to win contest prizes for their clubhouse, Lincoln and his friends end up with a room full of troublesome bobby prizes.
On a dull Saturday, two boys with nothing else to do print a newspaper to the dismay of the neighborhood.