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Margaret starts to follow the rules of the girl club, including going to get her first bra. Her dad hires Moose to cut the grass after cutting his hand on the new lawn mower, and Grandma buys a membership to the Lincoln Center, which allows them to spend time together. Mr. Benedict struggles as a teacher, with "peeping" happening, and the girls compare their boy lists, but Margaret leaves off Moose because of Nancy.

Margaret Simon is 11 and has just moved to New Jersey with her parents, mostly to get away from her grandmother Sylvia. On their first day there, she meets her neighbor Nancy, who will be in her class at school. On the first day of school, she joins Nancy's club and is surprised to find her teacher is a man, Miles J. Benedict, Jr., who is in his first year as a teacher. The girls name themselves the Four PTS.