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.
The Saddle Club members are suspicious when practical joker Stevie Lake asks them to star in a movie she is shooting for school entitled "Cinderella on Horseback," and their plans for retaliation have a ripple effect that touches everyone at Pine Hollow Stables.
Even though he has disbanded his Shadow Club, formed to play mean-spirited tricks on his enemies, fourteen-year-old Jared finds himself suspected when a popular boy at school becomes the target of new pranks.
When a junior high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals, the harmless pranks escalate until they become life-threatening.
The Scouts are planning fun activities for four springtime holidays. Molly has figured out the perfect Mother's Day present already, but when she plays an April Fool's trick on Roger, the joke turns out to be on her.
Tyrone the tyrannasaurus is making life miserable for Boland and his dinosaur friends by his bullying, his troublemaking gang, and his practical jokes.