Maya & Miguel

Miguel picks up a very special “Melissa Rojas” jacket for Kylie as a birthday gift. But when Maya discovers it, she thinks it’s a gift for her – and won’t take it off! Miguel can’t bear to break his sister’s heart, but he doesn’t want to be stuck without a present for Kylie either!

Maya is a big hit as the parrot mascot for Miguel’s community basketball team. But when Miguel turns his ankle, Maya has to help take care of him and has to miss the games. After all, she can’t be in two places at once. Or can she?

After a couple of coincidences, the kids become convinced that Paco is a good luck charm. At first it’s great fun, but soon Paco is in so much demand to give everyone good fortune that the poor parrot is getting worn out.

When a break from school comes, everyone looks forward to frittering away the days doing something fun and enjoyable. Maya’s idea of “fun and enjoyable” is helping people. She tries to volunteer at the Community Center bingo game, but ends up accidentally wreaking havoc. When one of the bingo players recommends Maya volunteer for his daughter, Dr. DasGupta the veterinarian, Maya jumps at the chance. She has a special bond with animals, after all. But when Maya overhears a conversation Dr. DasGupta is having, she mistakenly believes that Dr. DasGupta is going out of business. Eager to help her favorite vet, Maya launches a campaign to draw more business to Dr. DasGupta’s clinic... which works too well! Soon even elephants are lining up for treatment. Dr. DasGupta is mortified... she wasn’t planning on going out of business, she was planning on going on vacation! Fortunately, it all works out in the end when Maya calls in Dr. DasGupta’s father, who is also a veterinarian.

Tired of having to share everything, Maya and Miguel opt to have separate birthday parties. Rosa and Santiago are taken aback at first, but agree to help each one plan the party of their dreams. Eager to attract more people to their parties, Maya and Miguel begin a game of one-upmanship, which culminates in them accidentally planning their parties at exactly the same time. Now all the guests must race back and forth between the two parties to catch the highlights. As the guests get more and more worn out, Maya and Miguel start to feel that something is missing from their parties. They come to realize that the best thing is missing from both of their parties: each other.

School picture day is coming up, and the girls are excited to look their best for the big day. But Maggie, much to her dismay, gets braces put on just before the shoot. Maya does everything she can to make things better for her friend, but nothing seems to be working.

Tired of constantly bumping into each other, Maya and Miguel opt to split the apartment in half. They run a piece of tape down the middle, and promise not to cross it under any circumstances. Unfortunately for Maya, the bathroom is on Miguel’s side. Unfortunately for Miguel, the umbrellas are on Maya’s side, and it’s raining. Splitting the apartment turns out to be harder than they thought! When they are forced to work together on a diorama for school, they enlist Tito’s help to move supplies back and forth between them, rather than cross the tape. During the project-making, Paco ends up in a bucket of papier-mâché, and Maya and Miguel finally cross the tape barrier to save him. In the end, they learn from Tito (an only child) what a gift it is to have a sibling.

For a school Earth Day project, the kids decide to clean up an old lot and plant a community garden. But as the deadline approaches, a rainstorm hits, turning the patch of dirt into a muddy mess. How will Maya get her friends out of the muck this time?

Miguel’s soccer team has made it to the championships, and he’s nervous. Maya has a great idea to quell his nerves: intensive training the morning of the game. Miguel is skeptical of Maya’s idea, worried that he might be late to catch the bus to the game, but Maya assures him she will keep him on schedule. Unfortunately, she fails and Miguel misses the bus. He fumes and blames Maya and her “big ideas,” which always cause grief. Maya defends her big ideas, while also promising Miguel to get him to the game on time. Maya and Miguel, accompanied by Abuela, go on a transportation-hopping adventure as they take trains, trucks, buses and finally a horse and carriage, in a desperate effort to get Miguel to the game on time. Through it all, Maya asserts that the reason her ideas work is that she believes in the person she’s trying to help. In the end, they make it to the game, Miguel helps his team win the Championship, and he finally admits that Maya’s ideas are big and beautiful.

Maya learns that the director Fabian’s new play at the Community Center has a 10-year-old girl as the lead. Maya is determined to get the part... it’s perfect for her! After all, she’s a 10-year-old girl! She goes all out to convince Fabian that he should pick her, which he finally does. Maya’s thrilled... until she learns that the main character sleeps through the whole play! She switches gears, trying to get others to swap roles with her, but fails. Finally she decides that sleeping in a bed is not her idea of acting, and quits the play. Rosa counsels her to see her commitments through, and a guilty Maya goes back to the auditorium, just in time to crawl into bed and be the “star” of the play. Despite the fact that she has no lines, Maya has fun, and learns the value of keeping her promises.