Held back for a year in second grade, Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.

Emily Arrow was the last one to pick a special person to be kind to so she got Jill Simon, the class crybaby. Emily learns what being a special friend really means.

When the kids in Ms. Rooney's class return to school after Christmas, one of them suspects he has found a magic ruler that makes wishes come true.

Richard "Beast" Best wishes he could climb up the rope in the school gym like Matthew and Emily, but just the sight of it makes him dizzy. He hopes his friends will not find out his terrible secret. But the substitute teacher does find out.

Emily Arrow is class monitor and reports Sherri Dent for leaving her seat with out permission. Emily wonders what Sherri will do to get even.

Summer for Richard Best, nicknamed Beast, means facing the two ordeals of summer school and losing his best friend, who is moving to a distant state.

After a disastrous first day of school, Stacy comes up with a plan win a best friend. Stacy Arrow's first day of school isn't going well at all. She was only trying to help when she told Jiwon, the girl with the black hair, that her drawing of herself looked like a cow. And she didn't mean to scare her with stories about man-eating snakes. Now Jiwon refuses to be Stacy's best friend. What's Stacy doing wrong? "You have to be nice to a friend," says...

Mrs. Zachary wants her class to be people-helpers and prepare a Spectacular Stone Soup together. Stacy works hard to be helpful but no one seems to notice. Can a bunch of onions turn her into a people-helper?