When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.

In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system.

Cipher in the snow: About a boy who dies after getting off the school bus. Because no cause of death can be found, an interested teacher investigates and finds that the boy lost his will to live after his parents divorced. The gift: A young boy who can't afford an expensive gift for his father decides instead to do the chores on Christmas morning. The phone call:...

Larry the monster knows he must not open his Christmas present but with the reader's help, he just might learn what is inside.

Mr. Christmas comes to the aid of his uncle, Santa Claus, to help with the Christmas presents.