With Christmas just around the corner, the timing is perfect when Christy wins a radio contest, but how can she stretch her winnings to satisfy everybody including herself?.
Although fifteen-year-old Paige thinks he is determined to get away from home and pursue his own career goals in the big city, thirteen-year-old Abby confuses the issue by helping him see his Maine countryside in a more appreciative way.
With her grandparents too busy to pay attention to her and her father traveling a lot, twelve-year-old Mouse is heavily dependent upon her brother T.J. until she befriends another misfit like herself.
Twelve-year-old Maggie is determined to reject the entire masculine sex, from her preoccupied father to her annoying classmate Todd, until she begins to see other sides to the males around her.
Gussie McIver is always getting into trouble, but it takes a series of major mishaps while her mother is out of town before her father begins to notice.
In three adventures, Hortense, a neat and graceful rhinoceros, and her sloppy classmate, Herbert, learn to enjoy each other's company in spite of, or maybe because of, their differences.