Jealousy and envy sparked by the arrival of a new boy at school, cause problems for five best friends known as the English Roses.

Four best friends are jealous of a neighbor girl and refuse to hve anything to do with her, until they each have a dream in which a fairy godmother shows them what the girl's life is really like.

Four best friends are jealous of a neighbor girl and refuse to have anything to do with her, until they each have a dream in which a fairy godmother shows them what the girl's life is really like.

When Yakov the cobbler's son lies dying, it is the thieves, pickpockets, and criminals of the village whose prayers are heard, causing the boy to be healed.

When Eli the jewelry-maker is commissioned to make a special necklace for the queen, he and his young helper overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to complete the task.

Nicole and Amy attend a creative arts camp in Wales for vacation, and when Binah visits Grace in Atlanta, she experiences motion sickness on her first overseas holiday and becomes homesick once she arrives, leaving Grace and her family to make everything better.

Binah, tired of being "the nice one" in her group of friends, decides to get tough after being taken for granted once too often, but her new persona is not fitting in well with the English Roses, nor is it pleasing to Ben, the boy who liked her fine just as she was.

Nicole is excited about her friend from New York, Leslie, joining the English Roses, but once the other girls meet Leslie, they realize she is snooty and everyone but Nicole agrees they don't want to be her friend.

The Roses step in to help their friend Binah when she begins having doubts about her father's plans to marry her teacher, Miss Fluffernutter.

Amy is depressed after her mother announces that she is pregnant and they need to cancel their trip to Milan, and after Amy and her friends take Charlotte's bratty little brother, Patrick, to the circus she is even more convinced that a younger sibling is the last thing she wants.