Emma McKenna can’t wait for third grade at the brand-new Curiosity Academy. She’ll get a fresh start after last year’s talent-show disaster left her with that awful nickname. It’s going to be the best year ever! Then Lucy walks into Mrs. Z’s room. Lucy, Emma’s best-friend-turned-enemy, who gave Emma that nickname and spread it all over school! Emma’s fresh start is doomed...unless she can make friends before Lucy ruins everything. So Emma sets out to be pals with everyone, just like her favorite animal, the capybara. As her classmates argue over the choice of a new school mascot, Emma stays quiet and doesn’t pick sides. But maybe speaking up could be the thing that helps her really connect with her class—and saves her at last from third-grade doom.