While helping their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours in New England, Jim and Andy think the tourists are pretty silly; then one night the boys experience something which makes them change their minds.
Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh grade boy they both love.
While trying to understand her mother, who abandoned her as a child, eighteen-year old Sara takes a summer job as caretaker at a Victorian restoration site and encounters a foundling and two ghosts.