There are two things Jane Johnson dislikes passionately--tomato stew and her new teacher, Miss Eldora Coffin, the meanest teacher in Lowry School. An unhappy fifth-grader sentenced to serve out her school year in a mixed class of fifth and sixth graders, Jane is befriended by Richard Whitcomb (Dick to his friends), the most popular boy in Lowry School. But Dick has a flip side and he unexpectedly turns on Jane, harassing her at every opportunity and...