When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker...

"La profesora Granger es distinta a las que Nick tuvo en otros grados. A diferencia de la maestra Avery, quien le permitió transformar su clase en una isla, la profesora de Español es una fanática del diccionario. En su clase todos deben portarse bien y eso lo constata Nick, quien, luego de recibir un castigo ejemplar, iniciará un plan ambicioso: la invención de una palabra." -- "Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things...