Benton, Jim

Jamie Kelly shares with her diary her excitement about the fact that students from Wodehouse Middle School will be going to Mackerel Middle School temporarily.

It is summer vacation, and Jamie, Angeline, and Isabella need money so that they can go to Screamotopia Amusement Park, but none of their money-making schemes are very profitable.

almost always, there's nothing there but an uneaten tuna casserole, or a banana peel, or a diaper, which is why Jack's mom always tells him not to go digging through other people's garbage. But sometimes, people throw away secrets. Jack finds something in the trash so strange that he shows it to Mike, and then they show Maggie. They're stunned, but they know immediately they have to try it out. And soon, this mysterious garbage find....a book, of all things....allows them to turn the tables at home. Now the kids are making the rules.