Child, Lauren

When Charlie and Marv prepare to create an invention for a school project, Charlie's younger sister, Lola, tries to help out.

Lola learns an important lesson when she thinks it's a joke to ask for her older brother Charlie's help when she does not really need it and one day he finally decides not to answer her call.

Clarice Bean tries to glean useful advice from the "Ruby Redfort Survival Handbook" as she deals with several worries, including "largish" spiders, Robert the pest, and, most of all, sudden change.

During her first sleepover, when it is time for bed and the lights are turned off, Lola wants to go home, but her friend Lotta relieves her fears with imaginary stories.

Charlie has promised his friend, Marv, that he will be there for the big soccer game, but Lola has a cold and Charlie meets her every demand, with decreasing patience, until it looks as if Lola will never let him leave.

Lola, who is small and very funny, prepares for Field Day with help from her older brother Charlie, and her friends Lotta and Marv, but while she finds that most of the games are difficult, she might do well in the egg-and-spoon race, if she practices her concentration.

Charlie and Lola's summer fun takes a nosedive when Lola refuses to talk to their neighbor, Arnold Wolf, after he dumps her ice cream cone on the ground.

Lola tries to find a way to lift Charlie's spirits when he breaks his arm, cutting short their plans to put on a circus show.

When Clarice has to do a school project on the environment, she and her family become eco-warriors in an attempt to save a tree on their street.