Karen learns a lesson about the joys of Christmas giving when she comes up with a plan to help her neighbors, the Stones, raise the money to rebuild their barn.
When Karen teases her little brother Andrew about getting into trouble at preschool one day, he becomes a tattletale, telling on everything she does wrong.
Karen and her friends are going to Funland, but Karen doesn't have any money. When she finds a lucky penny, and later a wallet full of money, she wonders if she can keep the money for Funland.