The eleven-year-old Brewster triplets, Dawn, Darby, and Delaney, apply their wits and hijinks to the local Christmas pageant in the hopes of being cast as the three wise men, only to find themselves assigned to the roles of angels.
Triplets Dawn, Darbey, and Delaney decide to put a stop to the wedding between their beloved older sister Lily and her not-very-nice armadillo-faced groom Burton, with the help of a muddy dog, sprinklers, and other unexpected interlopers.
Unlike her romantic sister, Gabby is down-to-earth and does not put her trust in relationships, but when the richest boy in school befriends her, she discovers that emotional barriers might actually be getting in the way of her happiness.
Humiliated after being dumped by her boyfriend--on her birthday--and the popular crowd at the end of her junior year in high school, Katie endures more embarrassing moments while taking a summer class at the University of Texas in Austin and living away from home in an apartment with an overly hip roommate and a psychotic dog.
Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new Austin, Texas, school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom.".