After the popcorn the Huckabucks had raised explodes in a fire and Pony Pony Huckabuck finds a silver buckle inside a squash, the family decides it is time for a change.
Greatly disappointed that the celebrated Miss K will not be their teacher, Finley Streeter and Stanley Dragavich pull pranks on the new teacher in their small town.
Nineteen adventures of the little old woman who had such problems to solve as keeping her geese warm during the winter while taking their feathers for a feather bed.
Jonas, Maria, and Lotta, the rambunctious and unpredictable Nyman children, have a year of roughhouse adventures and prove that, while they are around, anything can happen.
His mother's latest "educational experience" gives Terry the notoriety he thought he wanted, in addition to a quick lesson in politics and handy knowledge about pigs.