This full-length play is a children's Valentine's Day special. The protagonist, Beau, is a new student at this one-room schoolhouse. The setting is in the Southeastern US back in the early 1970s. A girl from his old school, Peanuts, is also attending. After several incidents of Beau getting into trouble at the new school, Peanuts refuses to associate with him anymore. He asks her when she would allow him to get back with her again, and if she would tie a yellow ribbon around a huge live oak tree known by the students as the kissing tree to let him know she was willing. The school villains are referred to by the students as YaHoos and Flea-backs. These students don't like Beau from his first day there. They have it out for him, and wind-up kidnapping Peanuts in an effort to hurt his feelings. The class-witch named Donna Darlin, scries into a stump hole filled with water. She tells Beau where Peanuts is and what he must do to defeat the YaHoos and the Flea-back and get Peanuts safely returned. In return, he must be Donna's primary partner at the Easter festival dance held at the school on good Friday, however. He agrees to her terms. The play ends with Donna walking down to the kissing tree with Beau. There is a yellow ribbon tied around it. Beau is amazed and walks around it. Donna vanishes when Beau turns his back. Peanuts walks around from the other side to meet him. Beau promises he will never get into trouble again. They both exit the stage with their arms around one another's waists.
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