Nathaniel Phillips ran away from home so that he could join the British army in the Revolutionary War, but when he is taken prisoner by the American army, he learns what the war is really about.
When Lizzie McGuire takes care of dogs as a fund raising project, someone lets the animals escape from her backyard. She must find the culprit and the animals in order to prevent her project from ending in a disaster.
During the summer of 1776, ten-year-old Peggy discovers a wounded soldier in the woods near her Brooklyn farm, and is convinced that his sketchbook contains the secret notes of a Hessian spy.
Lizzy hurts the feelings of the not-so-popular Audrey Albright and now she is missing, leading Lizzy to enlist the help of Larry Tudgeman at a science-fiction convention to help her investigate the girl's disappearance.