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...

"Ghosts, pirates and family secrets -- Stephen gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out adventure in the ghostly realm, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger. Stephen loves pirates. What he doesn't love is his name: Stephen Oh-O'Driscoll. He believes when his Korean mother and Irish father gave him this name, that it was just one cruel setup for being teased. Giving things the proper name is important, which is why Stephen thinks that it's time...

"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...