Follows staff members, from teachers to cafeteria workers to the principal, as they diligently prepare for the first day of the new school year.

A backpack deals with first-day-of-school jitters and feeling out of place.

It is the first day of second grade and already Buddy is disappointed because his class has a new teacher, not the one he wanted, and there is a new student, Bea, who is boisterous and much too pushy for the reserved Buddy--and who insists that they are friends.