When Lassie leads rescuers to Timmy's mom, whose truck has slid off the road and overturned in a steep snow-filled ravine, they are all able to return home safely for a special Christmas celebration.
In late ninteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Sixth-grader Yuzi, trying hard to fit in at a new school, is traumatized by being asked to dress as a stalk of corn in the town's annual Popcorn Festival and soon finds herself in after-school detention, where she meets three other girls who join her in forming the "Secret Keeper Girl Club." Includes a mother/daughter Girl Gab assignment.
Sixth-grader Toni tries out for the boy's football league against her father's wishes and school rules and finds herself in detention where she meets three other girls who ask her to join their secret girls club.
Boy-crazy sixth-grader Kaitlyn has a crush on her older brother's best friend, Zachary; but when she writes his name of the bathroom wall, she ends up in detention where she meets three other girls who ask her to help them form a secret girls' club.
After accidentally hitting Mrs. Hefty with her brown bag lunch, sixth-grader Danika winds up in after-school detention where she meets three other girls who join her in forming the "Secret Keeper Girl Club.".
Separated from their parents, sixteen-year-old Zach and his thirteen-year-old sister Piper, with help from two school friends and some divine intervention, try to protect their six-year-old brother from dark forces who know of his supernatural gifts.
Zach and Piper, with divine assistance, continue to seek their kidnapped parents and protect their little brother, Elijah, from the evil Shadow Man, who places temptation in their path in the form of a beautiful runaway.
Still trying to save his younger brother Elijah from the powers of darkness, Zach must debate his faith with an expert atheist, while Elijah undergoes his own tests in the sinister Chamber, which tempts him to deny God and follow the evil Shadow Man.
