While finding new vegetable names to call her little brother, eight-year-old Clementine hatches a plan to prevent her beloved teacher from being selected to go on a once-in-a-lifetime research trip to Egypt. Clementine has to figure a way to keep her teacher, Mr. D'Matz, from going to Egypt.

Rhyming text reveals the surprising ways that teachers behave when their students are not at school.

A young boy, aware of his grandmother's forgetfulness, helps her recall a time when she was a kindergarten teacher teaching her students about hummingbirds and their nests.

When Pete discovers that his teacher is sick and his mom is the substitute, he must teach her the ins and outs of his school.

When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in room 207 plan to "really act up."

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Summer is over and Tortoise must summon the courage to go back to school.

Cam Jansen, with Eric at her side, helps solve the mystery of what happened to Mr. Day's tennis trophy.

Silly teacher Mrs. Millie gets her words wrong when the class goes on a field trip to a pumpkin patch.