Pam and her friends, the Pony Pals, get a creepy feeling that their new clubhouse, an old barn they find after following a path through the woods, is haunted.
Anna comes up with a great idea for the fall festival's paint-a-pony competition, but she worries that her entry will be sabotaged by annoying Tommy and Mike.
When Lulu's little friend Rosalie loses her pet hamster in the house, Lulu breaks her grandmother's rule and brings her pony inside to help locate the critter.
Pam, Anna, and Lulu face the possibility of the end of the Pony Pals when Lulu's father asks her to come live with him in Africa, and Anna and Pam grow too tall for their ponies.
Thirteen-year-old Kate leaves her home in Oregon to study with a national ballet company in New York City, but then she decides the life of a ballerina is not for her.
Maya, Carolyn, and Joy, having become friends at a summer photography workshop, meet up again in New York City to renew their friendship and sort out their problems.
