Katie Carew decides to give her mom tap dancing lessons for Mother's Day, and when Mrs. Carew decides to audition for a television performance, Katie is "switcherooed" into her mom right before the tryouts.
As Christmas approaches, Katie makes time to help others find the Christmas spirit as the magic wind first switches her with a Christmas tree farm employee, then with an unusual character at North Pole Winter Fun Park.
Katie and her friends, worried that Mr. G is leaving Cherrydale Elementary, devise a plan to convince him to stay, but when they put the plan into action, Katie learns his secret and realizes she and her friends have made a terrible mistake.
Katie dresses up as a witch for Halloween, and the magic wind plays a trick that will not allow her to change back into herself without showing some bravery.
Third-grader Katie Carew, transformed by a magical wind into Lucille, the nasty lunch lady, gets the older woman fired for starting a food fight and must figure out how to get Lucille's job back.
Katie, an ordinary third-grader who accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself, turns into her best friend Suzanne's baby sister, but the real trouble starts when she speaks, causing everyone to think the baby is a genius.
When Suzanne complains that she's treated like a baby, because her parents won't let her go to the movies, Katie actually becomes Suzanne's baby sister, Heather. When Katie is Heather-she speaks.