When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
After a tornado hits Bailey Tarbell's family farm all the animals are mixed up and it takes some creative thinking for Bailey to get things straightened out--almost!
An Australian wombat joins the Champs baseball team, and even though he is disastrously ignorant about the game, his innate talents save everyone when a tornado suddenly strikes.