Raised on a commune by a granola-munching ex-hippie mother, fifteen-year-old Moonbeam realizes that nothing is normal in his life and so sets out to change things.

It is a full moon on the summer solstice, a time of powerful magic and when Mailliw breaks his sister's moondial, she becomes desperately ill. Thedoctors have no cure and Mailliw only has two weeks before his sister disappears from their world. As she starts to fade, his quest to find a cure begins, but magic alone is not enough! He needs help from friends, dragons and a vampire cat to face a carnivorous swamp, an icy kingdom and deal with a terrible old hag where truth has sinister complications . . .

As a little mouse dances on Christmas Eve, she tells the story of her unfortunate sister, who was caught by the cat. Eventually, the moonbeam enters shines through the window, and, asked for a story, tells the tale of Dimas, whose father watched the sheep in the hills above Bethlehem on the first Christmas, and who again met the baby born that night, 33 years later on Calvary.

In Moonbeam Flowers, Marisol comes to New York City from Puerto Rico to stay with her aunt Belisa and her cousin Rosa because her mother is ill. She goes to school with Rosa, but she misses her family and her two brothers and her home terribly. As she plans to get ready for the Classroom Christmas Carnival in New York, her dreams are dashed by some nasty classmates who destroy what she had planned for the carnival. Her teacher, Ms. Lopez, steps in to end this attack on Marisol and her cousin Rosa and gives Marisol a proper farewell party for her return to Puerto Rico.