"When twelve-year-old Violet's dad walks out, she faces the aftermath the only way she knows how: with pie and math. But family and friendship turn out to have more variables than she thought"--
Zeke's third grade class is putting on a play and Zeke is unhappy and annoyed with what he sees as too small a role--until his mother teaches him the meaning of the saying "there are no small parts, only small actors."