Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.
Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe.
Third-grader Todd, suffering from a run of bad luck, brightens up when he learns that the unit on spiders he has been forced into at school--Todd hates spiders--may actually teach him a way to find the thief of his beloved baseball card collection.
Noelle and Todd hope to impress their new third grade teacher by being the first to use his clues to figure out who sent an anonymous note to another classmate.
Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show.