When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.

After taking dogs that had been in a shelter to a cabin to protect them from a storm, Elliot and his friends solve a series of puzzles to find a puppy that has gone missing in the cabin.

Eight-year-old Ernestine returns to visit relatives on the North Carolina farm where she was born.