Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chlo? and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
Amedeo and William find themselves working together on a house sale for Amedeo's eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender, whose house is crammed with memorabilia and stories that date back to Nazi Germany.
Determined to be a famous detective, Andy goes to the ghetto where he encounters crime for the first time, only to discover he is on the wrong side in the case.
While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chlo? and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
