Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.

When a butterfly unexpectedly flutters by and surprises Elmo, it sets off a chain reaction of funny accidents.

In this final book in the series, the seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.

On a rainy day, two children decide to make paper-bag puppets and put on a play for themselves and their parents.

"Jackson Stander is every parent's dream. He doesn't get into trouble, he always does his homework, and he never ever lies. His teachers all trust him completely. He even volunteers at the local Youth Center. But that was before Jackson came across an evil ventriloquist dummy. Now he must deal with Slappy wreaking havoc on his own family and friends. Jackson will soon see that two Slappys are not better than one"--Page 2 of cover.

Elmo the little monster cannot decide which is his favorite letter of the alphabet, because he has favorite things for almost every letter.

Grover is distressed that he has no present to give his mother for Mother's Day, not realizing that she already has the best present of all.

A wooden puppet undergoes many trials and tribulations because of his mischievousness and disobedience.

Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.