A trip to San Francisco's Chinatown, a dog's funeral, and a shoplifting incident reveal some previously unknown "secrets" and affect the relationships between twelve-year-old Taylor and thirteen-year-old Lindsey and their respective older brothers.

Lucille's brother and sister try to upstage her during her ballet performance on her fourth birthday, but they do not succeed.

After eleven-year-old Louise makes a wish on the first evening star and her brother turns into a pig, she uses wishes, kisses, and spells to try to put things right again.

Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.

When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

Benny is not pleased when his new baby sister, Delilah, arrives at his house.

Disgusted that a family with three girls moves into the house across the river, nine-year-old Wally and his three brothers declare a practical joke war on the girls.

Hoping to protect her younger brother from school bullies, a girl begins taking karate classes.

Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.