"A rags to riches story where young Cedric unexpectedly learns that he is the heir to a British earl and moves across the sea to claim his title, bringing joy to those around him in the process"--

On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.

Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

After Caillou's grandfather tells him about going camping with the boy's father, the old man and his grandson decide to camp out in the backyard.