Displaying their best work at school in preparation for Parents' Day, Nancy and her sidekick, Bree, are on the case when a prized possession goes missing, in a first chapter book starring the irrepressible Fancy Nancy.

As her class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.