On Test Day eleven-year-old Andie Jennings excepts to inherit a matrilineal gift and use it to bring her dad home, but instead of the family talent, but instead discovers an unexpected ability to communicate with ghosts at the town's shuttered Juneberry Blue factory, potentially providing what Morning Glory and her family need.

Cruzita must save her family's failing panaderia by winning a mariachi band contest--the only problem is she hates mariachi and cannot speak Spanish.