A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.

A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.

A young boy is bequeathed the ownership of a professional baseball team.

A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.

As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry...

Lilly is worried about her mom, Celia, who still misses Lilly's dad who died three years ago. Lilly writes to Santa with a wish that her mother could be happy again. The letter ends up with Jake, a writer that does extra work by replying to letters to Santa. He writes a very understanding letter back to Lilly. After some hesitation Lilly shows it to her mother and Celia writes a reply thanking Santa for his sensitive reply. This leads to an intensive letter exchange between the anonymous mother and "Santa" Jake who really find each other. But when Celia is convinced by her sister to stop writing Jake is confused and decides to accept a book signing in the town where Lilly and Celia lives in the hope to find out who they are.

In Rio de Janeiro, baby macaw, Blu, is captured by dealers and smuggled to the USA. While driving through Moose Lake, Minnesota, the truck that is transporting Blu accidentally drops Blu's box on the road. A girl, Linda, finds the bird and raises him with love. Fifteen years later, Blu is a domesticated and intelligent bird that does not fly and lives a comfortable life with bookshop owner Linda. Out of the blue, clumsy Brazilian ornithologist, Tulio, visits Linda and explains that Blu is the last male of his species, and he has a female called Jewel in Rio de Janeiro. He invites Linda to bring Blu to Rio so that he and Jewel can save their species. Linda travels with Blu and Tulio to Rio de Janeiro and they leave Blu and Jewel in a large cage in the institute where Tulio works. While they are having dinner, smugglers break into the institute and steal Blu and Jewel to sell them. Linda and Tulio look everywhere for Blu, who is chained to Jewel and hidden in a slum. Meanwhile, Jewel and Blu escape from their captors and befriend a group of birds that help them to get rid of the chains. It is Carnival and the smugglers and mean cockatoo, Nigel, do not intend to give up Blu and Jewel, and chase the birds through the crowded streets.

Multiple coincidences and a chance meeting bring Alice and Jack, two strangers from very different family backgrounds, together for a weekend wedding celebration. Encouraged by her family, led by mom Olga, Alice slowly lets go of her reservations about meeting someone new following a failed long-distance relationship. Meanwhile, more and more Godwinks - those coincidences that aren't really coincidences at all - bring Alice and Jack closer as each attempts to balance the newfound attraction with their complicated professional lives.

It's the approach to Christmas in New York City. Olivia Bennett and Edward Taylor, a former ballerina turned dance teacher and a small business consultant respectively, have long taken themselves out of the dating market, Olivia who has not felt ready to date since the passing of her husband Nathan eight years ago - her adolescent daughter, Maeryn, who doesn't remember her father - and Edward who is always traveling for work, he considering himself technically homeless and thus not in a position to devote himself to any one person in any one place, his attempts to do so in the past always having resulted in failure. They meet when they both come to the rescue of a poor, elderly woman named Gertrude, who loses her $80 - four twenty dollar bills - which was her Christmas Club money for Christmas gifts. Over the course of the holiday season, they, who admit to themselves that there was an immediate attraction and connection, constantly run into each other, often in relation to Gertrude's missing twenty dollar bills. Their initial meeting and subsequent meetings may not have been as accidental as they believe. Both Olivia and Edward have to decide for themselves if they are ready to open themselves up to a relationship. With the "Christmas Club" stars in alignment for that to happen, it may all come to not with regard to Olivia, who learns from her boss, Miss Maggie, the dance school owner, that she is retiring due to health reasons and selling the property where the school is housed. In the process, not only the school's Christmas Eve dance recital, but Olivia's professional future in its entirety - teaching dance her passion - are unwittingly negatively impacted by Edward's latest client and thus by association Edward himself.

A young spitfire cowgirl, and her coolheaded Native American friend, race a gang of neighborhood bullies to find a mysterious treasure supposedly having mystical powers.

Sarah has always been a true romantic, hence her favorite Christmas tradition, building her annual "Snow Beau" snowman with her best friend Nick. After another breakup right before the holidays, Sarah begins to wonder if she'll ever find true love of her own. When a little Christmas magic brings her Snow Beau to life as the romantically perfect Cole, Sarah must decide whether to pursue the romance she's always dreamed of or the true love that has been right in front of her all along.

Kate Sterling owns and operates Tokens of Love, a custom design jewelry store, in Minneapolis, she its designer. She treats the store like an extension of family, which she and her employees, Anthony Prentice and Vicki Wilson, love compared to working for a corporate entity like Shoreline Jeweler's. She had never thought about the fact of designing wedding rings for clients while having no romance in her life until her younger sister, Judy Sterling, gets engaged. About that same time, Kate is contacted out of the blue, after almost twenty years, by Jamie Coleman, her first boyfriend when they were in the eighth grade, they only having broken up solely in his family moving to Chicago. While there seems to be a romantic spark between the two upon this reunion, Kate learns the reason for he wanting to reconnect is that he is a corporate headhunter, his client, Shoreline, which is looking for someone to run their new custom jewelry design section in Chicago. Jamie admits that he fell into this seemingly unlikely career, he still dreaming of what was his initial plan to become a chef. While Kate initially declines the invitation even to meet with Shoreline, she reconsiders as she and Jamie seem to be falling for each other, the thought of making a go of the relationship by being in the same city a factor. The scale may tip if she learns that Jamie may have an ulterior professional motive outweighing their personal feelings.

Abby Brooks is the host of Abby's Restaurant Takeover, a restaurant makeover television show focusing on high end urban eateries. She fell into this job, which has taken time away from her first love of actually being in the kitchen herself cooking. With a directive from the network on the risk of otherwise being canceled, Abby, with her best friend and director Kenna by her side, has to go on the road, if it tests well, in the rebranded Abby on the Road in broadening the makeovers to the likes of her first assignment, Rocko's, a roadside diner in small town Lawrence, Minnesota, this assignment well outside of Abby's comfort zone. What makes it even more difficult is that the proprietor/head chef, Tom Billings, had no idea of the makeover - the submission made by his loving family, his Aunt Marge, the diner waitress, and his teen daughter, Claire - and resists any change to Rocko's in reverence and memory to his deceased parents, from who he inherited the diner, and his regulars who he believes expect "diner" in what he presents to them. The diner is despite Tom actually having innate culinary skills beyond that of a diner line cook, and he long having fantasized about something different than a diner if he were to start a culinary life all over again, something that both Marge and Claire know. As Tom reluctantly gives in in honoring Marge and Claire, and as Abby and Tom seem to be able to find a middle ground in what Rocko's should actually be, the two start to fall for each other, the chemistry which Kenna and the camera, and by association the network, can see. Beyond Abby needing to move to whatever her next makeover after Rocko's, a happy ending for her and Tom may be at risk by what the network wants, which first and foremost is good television.