IT WAS THE PERFECT CRIME Unfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian...
Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school -- the building where his father works...
When Jack Rankin learns that he will be attending the high school where his father works as a janitor, he hopes to get through the year without any of the other students finding out. But then, the inevitable happens. A classmate loses his lunch all over the classroom, and Jack's...
When Jack Rankin is publicly embarrassed by his father, the school janitor, his act of revenge results in him having to assist his father after school for three weeks. The work is tedious and humiliating, but Jack discovers some surprising secrets about his father--and himself...