The young narrator describes classroom activities during the first day of school.

The first grade's costume party is interrupted by the third grade bully.

When unattractive Cookie Becker loses the lead in the class play to another girl, she puts a curse on the production.

Although Susan is determined not to be friends with the new girl in her class, her friendship with Crystal grows along with their ability to get into trouble.

For four years Pete has looked forward to receiving the Most Valuable Player award in football; then a phenomenal new player joins the team.

Norman, his fellow seventh graders, and their home economics teacher campaign to save Fortuna Middle School, which has been slated for closure by the school board.

During her first term at boarding school, fifteen-year-old Flanders tries to cope with a variety of unusual people and situations and come to terms with her conflicting emotions about her recently separated parents.

Mistaking him for a child, a near-sighted truant officer takes a chimpanzee to school.

On the first day of school, a young boy expects only the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monstrous" Mrs. Green.

As Ludell and Willie prepare to graduate from their high school in a small southern town, they experience events that alter their plans for the future.