Everyone is excited about the school play, Alice in Wonderland. Leslie loves to act, but when Karen is chosen to play Alice, Leslie decides to ruin the play.
When Hannie overhears her father's phone call, she thinks that he is getting her entire class free Halloween costumes, but when she finds out she is wrong, she needs to come a with a way to save Halloween before all her friends hate her.
The students in Ms. Colman's class are each assigned to do a presentation about Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah, and Sara wants to prepare an authentic Kwanzaa meal, except time she tries to cook, it turns into a disaster.
Ricky, still angry at being laughed at when he made a mistake while reading aloud, tells Ms. Colman he will not read a story he wrote on Author Day, even though his refusal means he will not get to meet his favorite author.
