One evening, an attention-starved middle mouse named Nora wanted attention for her parents.

After so much waiting, Nora decides to make noise: She banged the window, slammed the door, and dropped Kate's marbles on the kitchen floor.

[1] Wells has called her books ""non-fiction"",[2] so that "Nora was my grade school best friend, Virginia O’Malley, who was a middle child".

[8] In 1994, Weston Woods developed an animated story based on the book's illustrations, which was narrated by Mary Beth Hurt.

In 2000, Nora was featured as one of the characters in the Timothy Goes to School animated TV series.