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A teacher designs a website for his grade school students to express their worries and subsequently helps to smooth some of the wrinkles in their lives. Witty, good-spirited, and genuine, these interconnected stories, each detailing one child's worry, range in gravity from a schoolboy crush to domestic abuse. One impressive story is written not by Wilson but by a twelve-year-old contest winner.