While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

Clementine learns her beloved teacher may be on leave for a long trip, and she takes drastic measures to keep him from going.

Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.

Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.