BOYS WILL BE BOYS—complete with rough-and-tumble games and mud-puddles. It's the way things are, or the way things were, until Mrs. Thompson decided the boys and girls alike in her 4th grade were to be called Purple Penguins. Something about that just didn't seem right to Norman Boone. Before any time at all Norman had Jesus Gonzalez, his best friend, and all the 4th grade boys—I mean Purple Penguins—engaged in a plan to make some changes.

THERE ARE SOME UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES FOR EVERYONE, and both Norman and Jesus find a certain satisfaction in their own particular brand of social activism. When kids get organized anything can happen!