Paul and Nancy Saulnier, a local Holliston couple, love squirrels and they want Jesse to turn a 9-foot tall stump in their back yard into a giant squirrel.
After already agreeing to repaint one of his old sculptures for his parents' mailman, Jesse is contacted by the Plainville Athletic League to tackle his tallest and most dangerous sculpture yet, a giant baseball bat.
Jesse is commissioned to produce a saxophone sculpture for Joe and Dawn Lacerda, owners of The Manchester Music Mill, but he has a bad feeling about the project and asks Beth if they can reconsider.
Beth has scheduled Jesse to carve a bear, but when a famous rock star, Chadwick Stokes, calls with an exciting new project he drops everything to go meet with his musical idol.
"The Machine" Jesse Green is excited to see his old buddy Greg who wants Jesse to create an animal sculpture for the front of the Tufts for Tech Veterinary Clinic at Worcester Technical High School.