After the warrior cat Clans settle into their new homes, the harmony they once had disappears as the clans start fighting each other, until the day their common enemy--the badger--invades their territory.

Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

Frances the badger foils her friend Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china tea set and teaches her a lesson about friendship.

The last thing Badger wants is a roommate, and certainly not Skunk, but since the house does not belong to him he does not have a choice; and soon everything in Badger's quiet and ordered life studying rocks is turned upside down (and where on earth did all the chickens come from)--but after he drives Skunk and his chickens away, Badger starts to miss his roommate and sets out to find him and make amends.

"Roommates Skunk and Badger head out on a rock-finding expedition that becomes much more dangerous than they ever expected"--

Badger is bored with the same old meals, but his search for more exciting food only leads to trouble.

Boris has trouble sleeping during the day, which is bedtime for badgers, causing him to fall asleep at night school and miss such delights as exploding science experiments, funny jokes, and badgerball games.

"Two bored badgers have run out of things to do until their mom suggests they help with the laundry"--

Yoko helps Timothy learn to play the bells of Sarna so that he can perform a solo in the school talent show.

In this sequel to Kenneth Grahame's classic "The Wind in the Willows, " the escapades continue for four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.