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Characters / David Straussberg

David Straussberg is a boy in the town of Odyssey and the older brother of Mandy Straussberg. He is the son of Stephen and Rachel, and he spends much of his time at Whit's End. David is a well-meaning kid with a talent for trouble. He puts off promised chores, plays pranks with his best friend Alex Jefferson, and once earned a ban from Whit's End for terrible table manners. He keeps a pet snake and has little patience for Mandy's cat, Fluffy Face. Yet his conscience always catches up with him. Beneath the teasing and squabbling, he is fiercely loyal to Mandy. When real trouble comes to their family, brother and sister face it side by side.

1987 2026

Appearances

15 episodes Art Text No.

2 of 2 0627 Life, in the Third Person While a broken leg lands Mandy in the hospital, her fractured family is forced to stop hiding from the hard conversations they've been avoiding.

1 of 2 0626 Life, in the Third Person Feeling invisible in her fractured family, Mandy tries to outrun her parents' separation on her bicycle - but some things can't be escaped.

0615 Only By His Grace A hopeful daughter piles on good deeds and prayers to keep her family together, while Grady's over-eager helpfulness at Whit's End spirals into disaster.

0597 Out of Our Hands When their parents' separation upends everything, a sister stakes her hopes on a play meant to reunite the family - while her brother plots a very different kind of response.

0592 Now More than Ever When her best friend suddenly turns cold and secretive, Liz sets out to uncover what's really troubling the Straussberg household - and to learn what it means to stay a faithful friend.

0459 Slumber Party Mandy's slumber party turns into a battleground when her two feuding best friends put her in the middle of every argument - and two uninvited guests appear at the window.

0446a A Matter of Manners When two boys banished from Whit's End for rudeness reinvent themselves as the school's manners experts, their newfound politeness becomes a weapon nobody can defend against.

0445 No Boundaries Tired of his parents' rules, a boy gets the chance to experience a life with no limits at all - and learns what freedom without boundaries really costs.

0441b Idol Minds While Whit is away for two weeks, the kids of Odyssey turn to Eugene's technology to fill the void - with results no one anticipates.

0440 I Slap Floor When two kids ask why Whit is home recovering from Odyssey's strangest week ever, Bernard spins a tale of a mysterious returning visitor and a town where everyone suddenly starts acting like their opposite.

0438b The Telltale Cat When Mandy's new cat makes David Straussberg's life miserable, his desperate scheme to get rid of it comes back to haunt him.

0437a Sunset Bowlawater When a little girl's beloved goldfish turns up dead, a bumbling detective takes the case - but the fish himself has been telling the story all along.

0433b Chain Reaction A boy's decision to cut corners on a simple lawn-mowing job quietly sets off a string of mishaps that ripples through the entire town of Odyssey.

0431b The Virtual Kid A boy becomes so obsessed with running the website he built for Whit's End that he risks missing out on the real place - and the real life - right in front of him.

0397 Tornado! As a devastating tornado bears down on Odyssey, a price-gouging shopkeeper and a little girl deemed too small to help face very different tests of character.