"Luis "Lucky" Martinez is the new kid on River Valley Junior High's JV soccer team. But his goalie skills aren't the only thing being tested. When a school talent show opens for auditions, Luis will find out if he's inherited his abuela's musical skills. Can Luis juggle both, or will he have to choose which of his passions to save: soccer or music?"--.
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.
The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.