Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.

Nancy makes the best of not dancing the lead in her ballet school's Deep Sea Dances show, but becomes jealous when her best friend gets a better role than hers.

Fancy Nancy pretends she is a glamorous celebrity--like the ones in Mrs. Devin's scrapbook--and stays up too late looking at photographs, only to be exhausted the next day.

Fancy Nancy and her class learn about poetry and write their own poems to read on Family Day at school.

Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.

Dressing as princesses and knights, Fancy Nancy and her friends go off in search of a unicorn in her backyard.

Nancy is devastated, which is even worse than heart-broken, when her fancy Christmas tree topper breaks, threatening to ruin Christmas.

Nancy's failure to pay attention gets her into trouble when she bakes cupcakes for the school bake sale.

When Nancy Clancy finds out that both her guitar teacher, Andy, and her favorite babysitter, Annie, have broken up with the people they were dating, she decides to make them fall in love on Valentine's Day.

Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, is dismayed to be partnered with shy classmate Lionel for the school talent show until she comes up with an act perfectly suited for both of them.