Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.

Buzz Bissinger's twins were born just three minutes apart, yet life couldn't have dealt them more different hands. Now grown, Gerry is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His twin brother, Zach, has spent his life attending special schools. He'll never drive a car, or kiss a girl, or live by himself. He is a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling...

When Chester tells his mother about the school bully, she asks him to gather his friends to hear a story about getting along with people who are prickly.