Gertie Reece Foy is on a mission to be the best fifth grader in the universe, and she never ever fails at her missions. But then Mary Sue Spivey shows up . . .
Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions, like the school bully. There are gazelles, like the bullied kids. There are meerkats, and then there are the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick’s a flea.