When the Robobots move onto Littlewood Lane they create controversy with their strange ways, but eventually they convince the neighbors that they are a family worth knowing.
Busy O'Brien works hard campaigning for her friend Mr. Ficken to win the town's Good Neighbor of the Year Contest, aware that her rival Jolly Van Pelt has entered her aunt.
A rift develops in the closeness shared by eleven-year-old Jonathon and his best friends when a new boy moves onto the street and insists on pushing himself into Jonathon's life.
Unable to continue with Christmas preparations because of his injured foot, old man Festus and his cat Mercury face a bleak Christmas until the neighbors come to the rescue.
Paul, who lives in a trailer, and Sebastian, who lives in an apartment, are discouraged from playing with each other, until they get lost together during a class outing.