As Told By Ginger

Ginger attracts the attention of the popular Courtney Gripling and receives an unexpected invitation to her staged "surprise" birthday party.

Ginger is forced to baby-sit Carl while doing community service at Golden Gates Old Age Home. Carl sneaks away and meets a lively jokester named Maude, and becomes smitten. Carl develops a bond with Maude and includes her in all of their pranks.

Ginger tries to avoid going on her school's ski trip because she doesn't know how to ski but Dodie and Macie convince her that skiing isn't the sole purpose in going.

When Courtney overhears Ginger making sleepover plans with Macie and Dodie, she enlists Miranda's help in hosting this novel idea herself.

When Dodie is chosen as the new school announcement person, she solemnly promises to uphold the dignity of the position but soon is delivering more gossip than needed information.

When Miranda craftily comments to Ginger that she and Darren make a cute couple, it sends Ginger's mind racing and that night she has a confusing dream. Dodie and Macie interpret the symbols of the dream to mean that Ginger likes Darren as a boyfriend.

When Ginger receives a belated graduation card from her father, she calls his answering machine and invites him to hear her poem. She hopes for a family reunion and writes a touching poem about her father being a stranger to her.

Carl, finding a toupee in the school hallway, fashions it into a mask which wakens the wolf within. He reinvents himself as "Wolf Boy" and Hoodsey organizes Wolf Boy showings in the backyard until Carl goes too far and attacks a teacher for his new wig.

For a science fair project, Carl and Hoodsey are set to buy Einstein's DNA when Blake Gripling gets to it first. Instead, they collect DNA samples at Macie's pool party.

After witnessing Courtney buying make-up in the drugstore, the girls decide they need to break into Lois's off-limits bathroom and "borrow" some make-up to spice up their lackluster school photos.