Includes "Chatting it up" a Holiday House Reader's guide, (pgs. [R1]-R10).

On and off the barn -- Running scared -- Junior's miss -- Broken wings -- 2,147 beer and pop cans -- See-through eyelids -- Going to town -- Mud -- Busting open -- Jailbird -- Pap's place -- Ralphie goes to therapy -- Jailbreak -- More mud -- Visitors -- Walking the plank -- Traveling mud -- Missing harmonica -- Breaking in -- Maggie alone -- Rich and special -- Discoveries -- Fame -- Trucks and caps and I-85 -- Going to court -- Rest of the Blossoms -- verdict -- Going home -- Mud's missing -- In the news - Hero -- Family favorites -- Together.

With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.