Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rainclouds. After years of traveling the world with her parents and older sister, Claude, Joy and her family move in with her grumpy, rule-obsessed granddad. Enrolled in regular school for the first time, Joy soon finds her usual irrepressible positivity and zest for life waning. When the powers that be threaten to knock down a historic oak tree, Joy decides to fight back, and realizes that not all magic requires wands and spells, and perhaps the most important sort of magic is the power, resilience and courage that was there all along ...