Making the grade

When her mother remarries, eight-year-old Tracy has to get used to a new school and a new obnoxious stepbrother.

Rich kid Mike Russell's campaign to make friends in the fourth grade brings him in conflict with his father, a real estate developer, when the class decides to oppose the development of forest land near the school.

A lie from his brainy best friend threatens to bar Mark from playing baseball for his fourth grade team.

Fifth-grader Andrew, good in music but poor in sports, gets a chance to prove himself in both when he is asked to direct his own play as a school production and to chose a sport for a mini-Olympics competition.

Bored with school, Jane, a precocious reader, neglects her homework and alienates her classmates by making up incredible stories about herself until her teacher, Mrs. Sims, finds a creative solution.

Kathy endangers her budding friendship with the new girl next door by ignoring her in favor of the In Crowd at school.

When her mother remarries, eight-year-old Tracy has to get used to a new school and a new obnoxious stepbrother.

Elliot doubts that he will survive the fifth grade, because the obnoxious class bully has selected him as his own special victim.