Henry is off to get photos of a Mississippi riverboat but forgets his camera. Glomer offers to take the kids to deliver the camera, but instead he takes them to 1860s Mississippi where they meet two kids having trouble keeping their riverboat afloat.

Punky opens a detective service with her locker as headquarters. Her first client is school brain Herbert, whose hamburger-making machine for the "Build A Better World" exhibition is being sabotaged.

Punky bristles when Henry hires babysitter, so she wishes she were older. Glomer turns her into an adult. As a result, her friends avoid her thinking she's a stranger. Punky tries to get a job as a waitress but everything that could go wrong does.

Henry brings Punky and Cherie with him to spend the weekend with his eccentric aunts, Martha and Veronica. Punky and Cherie get lost in the hallways of the house where they hear what they think is a plot to do away with Henry and them.

Glomer's Valentine's Day glomley love call is answered by Glomine, a female glomley that got stranded from Chaundoon by a storm. Could Glomine be Glomer's ticket back to Chaundoon, even if it means leaving his beloved Punky?

Glomer is jealous of a little bird Punky is nursing back to health. After a falling out with Punky, Glomer moves out into the tree house.

Punky's aunt Rose and uncle Roy invite her to the Chester Henderson mansion under the pretense that they have found her mother. What Punky doesn't know (until Glomer tells her) is that she is dressed like Henderson's granddaughter Debra so Rose and Roy can use her to embezzle Debra's $50 million inheritance.

Glomer's magic causes the characters from the Snow White fairy tale to come out of the book...including the wicked Queen.