The students in Miss Fox's class lead their school in making choices to help keep the planet healthy, such as turning off lights when leaving a room, taking shorter showers, and using cloth bags instead of plastic ones.
Still grieving for her father, twelve-year-old Birdie struggles to adjust to many changes, including when her grandmother, her mother, and her best friends all begin dating.
When disaster strikes every step of the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner preparations, the family realizes that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.
A young girl contrasts the exciting things she might someday do, like digging for dinosaur bones and swimming with dolphins, with her present-day activities of finding loose change in the sofa cushions and feeding her goldfish.
Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boardinghouse do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece.
