Elizabeth is a five-year-old girl who loves all the stories, especially the frog poem that Mother reads to the children. Elizabeth dreams of the day she can go to school near her house and read, read, read! When school starts in the fall, Elizabeth is determined to join the other first graders even though she isn't old enough. Elizabeth has a meeting with the principal. What will she say? What will happen? And why does the principal call her "the best lawyer"?