Billy knows it won’t be luck that sends him to hockey camp, it will be his own hard work. Then a bad-luck chain letter comes to him, and while he hesitates about passing on the bad luck, disasters begin to occur.

Chuck and Pete Riley’s father is serving out a prison term and can see his children only on weekly passes. When Pete gets a leading role in the school play, he begs off the weekly visit with his father claiming pressure of rehearsals. Chuck gets a crush on Tina but is ashamed to tell her…

Pete persuades Lisa to lend him $10, buys a stock of jokes and novelties, and sells them to kids in the neighborhood. But instead of repaying Lisa from the proceeds, he spends it all on raffle tickets. Trouble develops and he sells off the raffle tickets at a loss to settle his debts.

Casey and Lisa are best friends, until they decide to adopt Noel’s pet rabbit. When Casey’s father discovers that the lot line between the two houses has been badly surveyed, the rabbit cage becomes divided in two by the new line. Lisa and Casey become obsessed with property rights, competing, and eventually fighting over the…

Called away from her afterschool post at the family store, Sophie reluctantly leaves her friend Chuck in charge for a few minutes. Later, she discovers that $20 is missing from the cash register. Certain that she would not make a mistake, she accuses Chuck. But a math error reveals that Sophie’s trust in Chuck wasn’t…

Lisa’s newspaper isn’t selling very well. A good scoop would help, but nothing exciting ever happens on the block…until Ida is robbed. Lisa’s investigations uncover evidence that points to her brother Noel, as the guilty party.

Everything in Noel’s life was fine until his dad decided to remarry. It isn’t that Noel doesn’t want a stepmother, it’s just that Gayle seems to be changing everything. And what right does she have to tell him what to wear for the wedding? Soon, Noel is able to see that Gayle has feelings too,…

When 8-yr. old Irene moves to Degrassi Street, Ida decides she doesn’t like her and becomes jealous when her pal, Cookie, befriends the new girl. But a harrowing adventure with “Big Foot” finally makes Ida realize that friendship is better than having enemies.

Ida and Noel’s loyalty is put to the test when their clubmate and sworn bloodsister, Cookie, is taken to the hospital with appendicitis. Thanks to a concerned young nurse, they overcome their fear of hospitals and are able to bend hospital rules that don’t allow visitors under the age of 12 to bring Cookie her…

9-yr. old Ida Lucas makes a movie about garbage and enters it into a festival. The film is accepted as one of the finalists, but the sponsors think the film is about war. Ida has a dilemma…should she tell them the film is about garbage?