Six kids shipwrecked on an obscure Pacific island urgently need a plan to get home when they realize they are sharing their living space with a deadly group of smugglers--and the situation grows even more dire when the smugglers stumble across an atomic bomb left there in 1945.
Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates, try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting to the football coach who has become their new teacher.
Coleman Galloway uses a magic jersey to trade bodies with Dan Marino but when Dan Marino wakes up in Coleman's body he panics and takes off the jersey. Unless Nick and Elliot can track him down and get it back on him, he and Coleman may have changed place permanently.
Just as the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall is on the verge of retirement, a wave of practical jokes hits the school, and roommates Bruno and Boots become prime suspects.
Mr. Wizzle comes to MacDonald Hall, bringing a new computer, a dress code, and a demerit system. The students respond by forming a coalition to resolve their problems.