Little Pete decides to fake food poisoning in order to avoid another mind-numbing day at school during the stretch between winter and spring break. In an adventure that leads him from home to school and the various sites around Wellsville, Little Pete sees a classmate of his in a new light, gets a cereal marshmallow-likeness of President Dwight D. Eisenhower stuck in his nose, and gains a new perspective on the world that can only be appreciated on a sick day.