The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.

The first graders in Mrs. Connor's class prove that they can work together when Cookie the dog disrupts their graduation ceremony.

Determined to win a trophy of some kind, first-grader Roscoe swaps a hand-knitted sweater from his grandmother for the chance to enter his new neighbor's very clever dog in a trick contest.

Daydreaming in class is causing troubles for Andy Russell, especially in Ms. Roman's math class. When she's out sick and the class gets a substitute teacher, Andy hopes he'll get a break. Instead, things go from bad to worse when Andy gets blamed for things he isn't even doing! Class room angst is cleverly explored in this third book in the series about the likable fourth grader who learns that maybe teachers aren't always as bad as they seem.