This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
The school music teacher tells Reyna, "the first music lessons I ever took were from your abuelito." Reyna learns about her late grandfather's musica while trying to fix his guitar.
Grandpa Tu is famous for his special noodles, and as the emperor's birthday approaches, he encourages his granddaughter, Mei, to find her own noodle magic.
DJ McLean travels across the Atlantic Ocean following clues and symbols that lead him into the depth of the British espionage world in order to find the truth about his grandfather.