Old Cricket doesn't feel like helping his wife and neighbors to prepare for winter and so he pretends to have all sorts of ailments that require the doctor's care, but hungry Old Crow has other ideas.
An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.
Brigid wants her friends and family to do things her way, but when she asks her fairy godmother Maribel for a spell to help, Brigid learns that being bossy is not as much fun as she had thought.