When school is canceled due to snow, Alex Jefferson accepts a job to deliver cookies to his grandmother. On the way, he must endure many trials and tribulations.
When a window gets broken at Whit's End, Whit puts Rodney, Sarah Prachett, and Alex on trial to see where the responsibility for fixing the window will fall.
Mandy Straussberg and Sarah Prachett go camping far from Odyssey and run into an old friend--Jared DeWhite. But Jared's explanation of his disappearance from Odyssey makes them wonder whether or not to believe him.