When second-grader Matt Daring is stuck with a study buddy who is a fifth-grade super-bully, he evens the score when he learns that Nick is afraid of spiders and gets sick from scrambled eggs

Jilsy breaks out in warts only a few days before the beginning the new year as a third grader and, although her family tries to assure her that they will go away, she still has terrible fears that her entire year will be ruined because of the warts.

Sharing so much in common that they think of themselves as twins, Zoe and her brother, Columbo, move to a new town just before their ninth birthdays, but Columbo wants to hide the fact that he is really adopted.