Marty loses his lucky baseball bat, and his confidence along with it, and wonders if he will recover both in time to help the Tigers win the championship.
Unhappy with her family's move to a new city and after a disastrous first week at her new school, twelve-year-old Missy is convinced that her best and only friend is her dog Baby.
A little girl ignores the snickering of her older brother and his friend as she arranges a tea party for her dog and teddy bear, and eventually the boys find a reason to join the party.
Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition.
Even though his mother's voice sounds like a soft blue blanket when she talks to the new baby, it sounds like a great big lion voice when she scolds Danny.
In their determination to have fun while spending the night at a motel during a soccer tournament, Hobie Hanson and his friends get caught up in a mystery buff's efforts to solve a fictitious case.