Elijah Jackson Johnson is a seven year old boy with a big imagination that often gets him in trouble in school. Elijah often daydreams in Mrs Patty Parker Palmer's second grade class about elephant-sized ants or purple pandas and a lot of other silly things, but on this day he was caught! And Mrs Palmer's punishment is that in tomorrow's class he must explain to the students what a vowel is . And Elijah hasn't got a clue as to what a vowel is.. What will he do? Who will he ask for help?