While Catfish Kate and her friends are making sweet swamp music, Skink and his Skunktail boys are trying to read and they demand that the girls be quiet, but Kate finds a clever compromise.
During the summer, members of the teen rock band Zebrafish, including Vita, Walt, Jay, Plinko and Tanya, embark on their own adventures of doing good, from helping a camper with diabetes to turning an old ice cream truck into a bookmobile.
When Sammy Greenberg's friend ends up in the hospital after getting badly beaten up by the school bullies, he decides to build himself a monster. Made from clay using Jewish folklore, the Golem not only protects the boys but is also is a hot drummer in their rock-jazz-klezmer fusion band.
When new kid Davis Delaware starts a band called "The Amazing Dweebs" with beautiful Molly and nerdy Edwin, he catches the attention of school bully Gerald "the Butcher" Boggs and faces an uncertain future at high school.
Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects she has come to love.
As fifteen-year-old Matt copes with freshman year in a Texas high school, his first girlfriend, and the quest to become a drummer in a band, he continually confronts authority figures who slow his progress.
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
