Madonna

The Roses step in to help their friend Binah when she begins having doubts about her father's plans to marry her teacher, Miss Fluffernutter.

Nicole and Amy attend a creative arts camp in Wales for vacation, and when Binah visits Grace in Atlanta, she experiences motion sickness on her first overseas holiday and becomes homesick once she arrives, leaving Grace and her family to make everything better.

Rumors begin to fly about Nicole and Jackson Elliot, her partner for the science fair, that threaten to ruin their friendship and their project.

Jealousy and envy sparked by the arrival of a new boy at school, cause problems for five best friends known as the English Roses.

Nicole is excited about her friend from New York, Leslie, joining the English Roses, but once the other girls meet Leslie, they realize she is snooty and everyone but Nicole agrees they don't want to be her friend.

Grace has always loved soccer, but when her family life begins to fall apart, even her love for the game can't help Grace, and she turns to her friends, the English Roses, to get her through the tough times.

Amy is depressed after her mother announces that she is pregnant and they need to cancel their trip to Milan, and after Amy and her friends take Charlotte's bratty little brother, Patrick, to the circus she is even more convinced that a younger sibling is the last thing she wants.

Binah, tired of being "the nice one" in her group of friends, decides to get tough after being taken for granted once too often, but her new persona is not fitting in well with the English Roses, nor is it pleasing to Ben, the boy who liked her fine just as she was.

When sixth-grader Charlotte uses the class gift exchange to score popularity points, best friends Binah, Grace, Amy, and Nicole remind her of the true meaning of Christmas.