While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions.
Text and accompanying photographs present eight actual crises faced by American presidents followed by a list of options for a decision making policy. Includes an evaluation of the actual decisions made by the presidents.
While her classmates bring in apples, make drawings, pick dandelions, and clean the blackboard, Maybella Jean Wishywashy cannot decide how to show their teacher how much she is appreciated.
When Stoneybrook has a winter carnival and tree-lighting ceremony, Karen wants to be chosen as the Snow Princess and be able to light the town square, but she can't do both, so she must choose which one is more important to her.
Looks at choice from a variety of perspectives, and explores the questions of why choice is powerful, how people choose, whether individuals should ever give up their right to choose, and others.