Everyone looks forward to the school picture day except Josephina.

Mrs. Hartwell is taking her class on a field trip to the zoo, and because of the fiasco last time she has prepared a list of tips to deal with anticipated disasters -- but will they work?

Bear cubs Pete and Gabby go exploring and come across an elementary school.

There is an elegant substitute teacher in class today, but Katie's attempts to impress her keep going wrong.

Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.

Imagined in the form of a secret agent's set of instructions, Mason and other children negotiate the first day of school.

Can a magical wish make Raven and Luca best friends again after they quarrel over their double act in the school talent show?

Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and, as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them -- but he will need some help from his friends.

Third-grader Dexter Drabner dreams of being a skateboarding-hero-spy, while contending with his nemesis at school, Millicent the bully -- and when science teacher Mr. McFur's prized lab rat, Pretty, eats a piece of radioactive gamma broccoli and grows to the size of an elephant, he gets his chance to save the school from destruction.

Alexander and his new friend, Rip, are worried that the worms the rain has brought out are really the megaworms that Notebook of Doom describes but they soon discover that the night crawlers are trying to warn them about the monster tunnel fish that are threatening Stermont Elementary.