As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Ernesto fears his summer vacation is ruined when he fails four exams, but with the help of some friends and Rufina, the fairy of the woods, all turns out well.
Javier and his friends, fans of the Astroman comics, believe they may have encountered an alien when Javier falls in a crack and is rescued by a giant creature with a light on its head.
Alina, the witch of the mountain, decides to cut down the trees around her home in order to make way for smoother broom landings and it takes the combined efforts of the animals of the forest and her fellow witches to save the woodlands.
Isa and her class are to write a composition about grandmothers. When Isa, who has no grandmother invents one, she never imagines the trouble it will cause.