When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.
Maya wants her cousin, Viviana, out of her life, but to make matters worse Viviana is living with her, tries to steal her boyfriend, and is on the school's quiz team competing on a television show with Maya.
Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. He cannot afford a doctor for his eighteen-month-old daughter. So he becomes a contestant on one of the Network's game shows, where you can win more money than you've ever dreamed of---or die trying. But Ben figures the chance to solve all of his problems at once is worth it. Or is it?.