Owen, a second grader who is being teased for his small size, discovers that his friend Joseph is just as concerned about being overweight, and they share their fear of being humiliated by the school nurse.
Every school day is great for first-grader Posey, until her teacher's birthday, when her best friend's gift of an enormous bouquet puts Posey's few, home-grown roses to shame.
Hildy is thrilled when a farmer invites her to enter his "pig pickin'" contest, believing it to be a competition to pick the prettiest pig, but when Moose learns what pig pickin' really is, he must come up with a way to save his friend.
Owen and his friends learn the consequences of knowing too much when they decide it will be a fun challenge to spy on the school principal at his own home.
Moose, who is good at drawing and making doughnuts, is upset when he loses his antlers, but his encounters with a hunter help them both gain self-respect.
A suggestion from her mother leads Sophie to befriend the new girl at school and an elderly, grouchy woman, and helps her overcome the feeling that she is not good at anything.
Ingenious eight-year-old Owen wants to make money for the things he absolutely needs, such as plastic vomit, but he tries to come up with some alternatives to earning an allowance, which sounds like too much work.
