After a powerful wizard casts a spell separating two young lovers from each other by trapping them in a painting and a book, Moonflower and her fairy friends embark on a mission to free them.
Thistle and her fairy friends must face Killjoy Crosspatch, the Spirit of Sorrow, who has stolen the Shell of Laughter from Staid, the elf, and return the shell to its rightful place before all laughter becomes a thing of the past.
When Ripper the gremlin, Bruchard the gargoyle, and Mr. Jones the dwarf start acting against their magical natures, they seek out the fairies, who assign Primrose and her fairy friends to discover what has happened.
While personally debating whether to use her fairy magic to help her mother stop smoking which would cost her, her fairy spirit, Mimosa and her fairy friends are sent to find the librarian of the Library of the Ages who has disappeared.
When a goblin curse threatens to destroy a new species each month, to eventually include humans, Firefly and her fairy friends are given the task of helping a squirrel seek the blue moon clover that is the only hope of stopping the terrible disease that results.
Nine-year-old Beth's attitude about a visit to her eccentric Aunt Evelyn's house changes when she is told that she and Evelyn are fairies and need to rescue the missing Feather of Hope from a house of gremlins--a mission for which Beth enlists the help of her dog, Peanut.
