Tawny Lynn Brown is a six year old African - American girl who lives in the City of Lackawanna. She lives with her mom Tamara, her dad Randy, her brother Sam and her pet turtle Duke. She loves flowers and hates rainy days. She is a first grader at Roosevelt Elementary, where she attends class with her best friend Jessie Johnson who lives down the street with his mom and his pet cat named Zeus. Tawny is not having a good day. She just found out that her school is closing. Ms. Ransal said, ""no more school"" and now Tawny is confused. What will happen to all the books and her friends? This is not good news. Jessie says everything will be okay and figured that it will be good for them to be able to do what they want. Like eat ice cream for breakfast. Tawny had to get to the bottom of this no more school stuff. In the meantime, she gets a surprise at school that made her last day the best day.