James teacher is out sick nad his best friend, Ray decide to play a joke on the sub. The switch seats. But the pranks stops being funny pretty fast. The worst is yet to come. The next day the sub is back!.
Dan thinks he is going to have a terrible time when he is forced to go camping with his mother's boyfriend Mike and Mike's brainy son Raymond, but the two boys form a surprising friendship.
Thirteen-year-old Tim has never known anyone like Corky, a boy from the city who has just moved to Tim's small town in the California wine country, but Corky's practical jokes and pranks lead Tim into some uncomfortable situations.
Eddie, age fourteen, and Jack, age seventeen, find a skeleton weighted down in Muir Lake, and Jack thinks it just might be his father who's been missing for nine years.