Ricky loves adventures, playing with his dog Buster, and being part of everything—maybe a little too much sometimes. He wiggles, blurts, and zooms right into other people’s space without meaning to. At school, his big excitement can cause problems, and making friends feels tougher than he expected.
Frannie’s class is reading a poem that begins, “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Frannie hasn’t really thought much about hope before. She’s usually busy thinking about everything else going on in her life.
