A fourth grader thinks he is all that when he plays football with sixth graders. He cannot understand why some people play games like tether-ball, hopscotch and roller skating just for fun. Everything he does he has to play to win.
As a boy cycles throughout a neighborhood, he wishes that he could do more things by himself. A girl wishes that she didn't have to do everything by herself.
A boy always plays jokes on other people, including his sister, his schoolmates and a candy store owner. He thinks that it is all so funny, but how will he feel when the joke is on him?
In the heat of a hockey game battle, a player calls a boy from Hull, Québec a name and then feels bad about it. He speaks to his mother, then ventures to Hull to see what life is like there.
When a boy's cat is given away by its mother, it is the last straw. The boy wants to run away from home, and tries to convince a friend to do the same.
The Iron Whirl-A-Gig toy is advertised in The Captain Selmore Show. Two brothers are obsessed with trying to be the first on their block to get it, but when they have to use their own money, they learn the true value of wanting something.
On a field trip to a civil war ground, a girl thinks she would have helped wounded soldiers. A boy wanders off looking for artifacts and falls down a hill, hurting himself. The girl hears the boy's plight and tries to help.
A girl works on a painting of her family for her father, who will soon return home from a long day at work. Two traffic jams, a report that was not what his boss wanted and a pestering child all lead to some harsh words being spoken.
A brother can't stand his sister and wishes he was an only child, but he cares for her in some ways. He promises to go to her play, but he also sees the horror movie The House That Dripped Blood on the same day to spite his mother.
A boy really likes his teacher and tries to do everything to please her. When he finds out that he isn't liked any more than the other students, he doesn't take too kindly to it.
A new boy in class is picked on by the class bully, who follows him around town taunting him. The new boy pleads to be left alone, but the bully will have none of it. What will happen when the bully needs help?
When a girl has to spell on the blackboard, she freezes and her classmates laugh at her. The class then go to the local ice rink, but she is afraid to try skating because she might be laughed at when she falls. Her teacher tries to help.
A Spanish boy moves to a bustling city. He has trouble with things like adapting to a new language, not seeing the ocean and missing his friends. His uncle buys him a baseball mitt. Will he be able to make some new friends at the park?
Some inner-city youth are taken to the quiet country. One child, touched by it all, tries to make a little bit of country in his messy inner-city lot by cultivating the grounds and producing vegetables. Will he do it again next summer?
A group of children dare each other to do some crazy stunts, such as skateboarding down a hill and stealing a construction worker's lunch, but will their last dare be a bit too extreme?
Five children fall out when two of them are excluded from building a fort. Some miscommunication sees them fight and start to intensely dislike one another. Neither of the groups can see what happened from the other group's perspective.