Katie is very excited about her family's trip to London, Paris, Madrid, and Venice, but when the magic wind strikes not once, but four times, Katie's European vacation is turned upside down.
When the Hardy brothers go to Maine to help one of their father's friend solve a mystery of strange accidents at his hunting lodge, they find there is a fortune in stolen money buried somewhere and the lodge is full of likely suspects.
Ainsley and Rollo, the majestic, marble lions guarding the New York Public Library, come to life one magical night to help a young tourist find her parents.
Charlie, having returned home alone after his father decided to stay in Lawrence, Kansas to help defend the town from pro-slave ruffians, must prove himself responsible when his family is threatened by a snow storm.
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
In 1919 Papa, Mama, and their four daughters homestead a tract of land near Yuma, Arizona, and try to turn a desert mesa into farmland and a shack into a home.
Alaskan huskies Toby and Crystal must figure out what to do when their musher and boss Joe becomes ill and falls off the sled in the middle of the Iditarod race.
Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a caf? in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot.