Daffy Duck, the stingy proprietor of the Lucky Duck megamart, demands that his employees work on Christmas in order to take advantage of last-minute shoppers.
Mary Lennox is an orphan sent to live in her reclusive uncle's forbidding mansion filled with secrets, including a crippled cousin she didn't know she had. She discovers a neglected garden and is determined to bring it back to life.
Claudia and Jamie run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and become embroiled in the mystery that is the toast of the New York papers--the question of whether the statue just donated by the grouchy art collector Mrs. Frankweiler is a real Michelangelo.