Fancy Nancy, trying to decide how to style her hair for her school pictures, has what she thinks is a great idea and grabs the scissors.

When Ms. Glass runs out of Backward Day ideas, Nancy comes up with a way to celebrate the day.

Nancy is about to lose her first tooth, but if she can prevent it from falling out until she arrives at school she will get a special necklace from the nurse.

Falling into a professional rut after losing her job, a divorced mother of two remembers her promising youth as a high-achieving Yale graduate and finds unexpected opportunities to apply her talents when a powerful college admissions advisor is found murdered.

As her third-grade class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy enthusiastically plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.

Nancy is determined to make the cover of her very first book report as fancy as she can, but she spends so much time on it that she has no time to write about the book.

Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, is dismayed to be partnered with shy classmate Lionel for the school talent show until she comes up with an act perfectly suited for both of them.

Nancy Clancy is working to be the star reporter of the Third Grade Gazette - that's the fancy word for newspaper. When Nancy overhears something she shouldn't and the news gets out, she learns that a good reporter knows when to keep things confidential.

Collects six Fancy Nancy stories, including "Splendid Speller," wherein Nancy, who loves to use fancy words, comes up against a tough spelling quiz and is faced with a difficult decision.

When a rainstorm prevents Nancy and her best friend, Robert, from getting to the planetarium the night of a class field trip, she has a brilliant idea for making things better.