Third-grader Dessert, inspired by Mrs. Howdy Doody's lessons about the American Revolution, decides she and her friends should fight back against annoying siblings, but the club she starts only makes matters worse.
It seems as if the Whatever Club is doomed when Adam insists on joining, then wants to play baseball or video games instead of reading magazines and doing other things thirteen-year-old Claudia and her girlfriends are used to doing.
Three Hoboken children and their giant chicken Henrietta set off to explore the world of art after being inspired by the sidewalk drawings of a local chalk artist.
After the neighborhood basketball court is vandalized, Ziggy and his friends decide to form a club called the Black Dinosaurs and build their clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard where they find a mysterious cache of buried bones.
Ziggy and his friends are excited to find out about the tunnel under their school that was once used by the Underground Railroad and decide to check it out.
Carole trains Samson, Pine Hollow's new foal; Stevie has a visitor from Washington, D.C.; and Lisa begins writing "Hoof Beat," a weekly column for the local newspaper.
When three friends accompany their riding instructor to New York City to attend an important horse show, they meet their favorite actor, who asks them to help him learn to ride for his latest movie.
