The new Piper Morgan series fills a niche for those young girls living in a single-parent family, where they are the only child and there is no father in the picture. Piper is most likely in the 5-8 year age range, is eager to please, wants to make friends, and jumps to conclusions – be they right or wrong. Piper’s mother works out of a ‘Temp’ agency which takes her and Piper to many different places. Piper’s big hope is that her mother will finally get a job where they will be able to stay in one place for a long time.

As book #2 opens, Piper’s mother has taken on her latest temp job working on a project in a school office. Piper might get to help around the school as a Helper Bee, when not in class. Piper is introduced to her new class. She will be sitting next to Lily, the principal’s daughter, who is also a Helper Bee.

Nana and Piper make cookies for Piper to give to the principal. When the cookies disappear, Piper blames Lily. Later, when Lily and Piper are yelling at each other Piper’s mother is able to get Lily to explain how she hid the cookies in a classroom. Meanwhile, Lily’s father had already found the missing cookies. It seems Piper and Lily both wanted to be the best Helper Bees.

In the end, Piper finds the “I’m sorry” card Lily made for her.

At the end of each of the ten chapters, there is a “Class Fact” page of trivia about the topic of interest from that chapter.  At the end of chapter 5, the Class Fact deal with how to tell if someone is lying. While at the end of chapter 8, the Class Fact deals with how to say you’re sorry and after chapter 9, it deals with famous artists.

Lucy Fleming has two or three gray-toned pencil illustrations for each chapter.