Jessi is thrilled when she earns the lead in her dance school's latest ballet, but someone in Jessi's class wants her out of the show.

Kristy gets the great idea of entering a float in the Stoneybrook Baby Parade. It sounded easy, but the float looks like a big orange blob, the costumes are hideous, and the babies won't stop crying.

Mary Anne begins to have second thoughts about having told Logan to cool their relationship.

When Stoneybrook is paralyzed by a massive blizzard, Dawn and her mother get stranded at the airport, Jessi is snowed in at her dance school, and Kristy's boyfriend gets stuck overnight at her house. Claudia, Mary Anne and Mallory are all baby-sitting, but no one has heard from Stacey—could she be trapped somewhere on the way back from the mall?

Dawn thinks studying ecology is cool. She wants to start a recycling center at SMS, but she is too busy lecturing people she doesn't have the time.

Kristy is not too happy with some things at Stoneybrook Middle School, so she decides to run for class president. But can Kristy coach a softball team, get straight A's, baby-sit, run the BSC, and be president? Kristy is not happy with things at Stoneybrook Middle School. She would like to run for president of the eighth grade class. She already coaches softball, gets straight As, baby-sits, runs the BSC, and it's possible that being a class officer...

Stacey's parents are divorced, but they both depend on her. But how can she choose between them, when her mother is home sick, and her father wants her to go with him to the dinner celebrating his promotion to vice-president.

Dawn's moving back to California. But she'll be back, right? Dawn loves her life and stepfamily in Stoneybrook, but she misses her dad and brother in California. So she makes a decision -- she's going to move back to California for six months. But will she really return to Stoneybrook?