"Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other...

In a school theatrical production of 'A Christmas Carol', the boy who plays Scrooge is extra nervous because his very busy father is in the audience--but may leave early due to business. Will the classic story's message reach his father's distracted heart?

Ebenezer Scrooge finds his view on life changed after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future; a female newspaper columnist who writes about being a housewife scrambles to keep her job and must find a husband and family in short order, when her publisher invites himself to her alleged home for the holidays; two co-workers in a Budapest store who dislike each other discover that they have been pen pals for some time; homeless...