Kevin gets a crush on his English teacher, Miss White, who convinces him to play Robert Kennedy in a play she has written about Martin Luther King, Jr.. Only, he's having trouble getting her to see him as more than a 7th grader.
Kevin and Wayne try to convince Jack to buy a color television for Christmas. Meanwhile Kevin tries to find the perfect present for Winnie after she unexpectedly gives him a present.
Kevin's continuing longing for Winnie has caused him to become frustrated with being alone. And it's not helping that Paul now has Carla. When Kevin reaches his breaking point, he ends up asking Becky Slater to go steady.
Kevin feels that his piano lessons with Mrs. Carples aren't doing him any good. But Mrs. Carples feels that Kevin has got musical potential and sets him up against her best student, Ronald Hirschmuller.
Wayne's bullying of Kevin has been getting pretty out-of-hand lately. but when he interferes in a big way with Kevin and Paul's Science Project, Wayne may have gone too far.
When Kevin sees that Paul is being humiliated at basketball, he decides to go to Coach Cutlip to complain about how he thinks teams are being unfairly picked. Trying to teach him a lesson, Cutlip makes Kevin the new team captain.
Kevin along with kids from his school plan to schedule a walkout to protest the Vietnam War. However, when the assistant principal, Mr. Diperna, finds out about the planned walkout, he threatens to suspend all who participate.
Now that Kevin is back together with Winnie Cooper, Kevin thinks his problems are behind them. But then he is remembered how he ridiculed his friends, including Winnie, behind their backs - because Becky tells everyone.
With Winnie still upset at him, Kevin tries to get back on good terms with her by confronting Eddie Pinetti, the school bully, for going into her locker. This plan backfires when he realizes that Winnie is now seeing Eddie.
Kevin and Paul have usually celebrated their birthdays together. But when Paul turns 13 and his Bar Mitzvah is about to take place, the convention is endangered.
To get closer to his sister, Kevin agrees to run errands for her before school. He soon discovers that she is skipping school to hang out with her friends at the "rock".
The gym class is engaging in square-dancing, and Kevin is paired up with Margaret Farquhar, the strangest girl in 7th grade. While Margaret enjoys spending time with Kevin, her presence makes Kevin wary of his junior-high image.
Kevin, Winnie and Paul band together to save their childhood playground of Harper's Woods from becoming a shopping mall. The only problem is, no one seems to care.
As the end of school approaches, Kevins looks forward to spending the summer with Paul and Winnie. However, his summer is spoiled when Paul tells hims that he'll be leaving for summer and Winnie seems to be avoiding him.
