Kaylee is upset when she and her best friend Jenna are put in different classes at school for the first time, but with the help of Maggie, a very friendly classmate, things start looking better.
Meg continues to write in her diary about her family's adventures in the Kansas prairie in 1856 as they try to return to a more normal life after surviving a cholera epidemic, separation, and invading Border Ruffians.
Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.