As Katie Woo works out what she will write her research paper on for school, there are “Katie’s Star Tips” at the bottom of 7 pages. These tips include information on brainstorming, sources, note cards, and revisions among other things.

Katie compares what she is learning about her topic of butterflies with the factoids her friends are learning about their topics of whales and airplanes.

Katie’s first draft is shown with its “spelling mistakes, but she could fix those later.” (p. 24) Her final paper is also shown with its revisions and Katie is excited about beginning research for her next paper on dogs.

Prior to the glossary page, there is a full page image of a handwritten sheet of notebook paper listing five ideas for research papers the readers might like to attempt themselves.