Belle Teal Harper's entrance into fifth-grade in the early 1960s brings many changes and challenges as her Gran's memory begins to slip, her mom spends long hours away at work, and her class gets two new students, including an African-American boy.
Karen and her friends go to farm camp, where she takes care of a little lamb. When she decides to enter him in the county fair, Tia, who lives on a farm, tells her she can't win, but Karen is determined to try anyway.
Kristy's family moves to a new neighborhood where the kids make fun of Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. The Baby-sitters are not going to let them get away with it.
Mary Anne and Stacey return to Sea City as mother's helpers for the Pike family. Neither of them expects to meet their old boyfriend from last summer!.
It is obvious Claudia is very different from her sister Janine. But when she can hardly find any baby pictures of herself and no birth certificate, she begins to wonder if she might have been adopted.
