When Liza's older brother Jesse refuses to let her take his fossil to school for second grade show and share, she takes the trilobite anyway and loses it in the classroom.
Even though he lacks the confidence of his older sister Latrice, third-grader Ron makes himself enter the Kwanzaa contest in which he reveals the talent of his hands.
A chance encounter with General George Washington in upstate New York during the Revolutionary War leads a young woman to volunteer for a dangerous mission involving the retrieval of valuable papers.
Being short and having moved four times in the last three years makes Sally defensive, so although she tries to help a classmate stand up to two bullies, she gets off to a bad start in her new school.
