It's Presidents' Day, and Mr. Macky, the reading specialist, actually expects A.J. and his friends to read stuff about the presidents. Not only that, but he lives in a log cabin and thinks he's Abraham Lincoln! Is he for real?
As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when principal Klutz bans junk food.
When the hippie crossing guard, Mr. Louie, puts a love potion in the water fountain before Valentine's Day, everyone at Ella Mentry School falls in love.
When first-grader Roscoe discovers that his stuffed pig is missing from his backpack, he accuses the class bully of "pig-napping" and gets even by taking the bully's teddy bear.