Of Mice and Nutcrackers: A Peeler Christmas

The class is putting on The Nutcracker for the holiday pageant and Jane Peeler's in charge. Things are not going well The phys ed teacher won't let her use the gym to rehearse, Herald of Candyland can't get his lines straight, she may be losing her best friend, and she's worried about home because Dad's sick and Grandma - irritable, chain-smoking, noncooking Grandma - is taking care of the family.

How is Jane going to pull together a project that seems like it is destined to fail? Her efforts are as hilarious - and as thought provoking - as they were when we first met the Peelers in The Way to Schenectady.