Hank Zipzer

Keen to avoid doing any writing, Hank decides to build a model of his holiday at Niagara Falls and demonstrate the experience to the class instead. However, when he floods the classroom, Hank lands himself in hot water.

The school announces its annual house sport and quiz competition, and Hank finds himself forced to try out for the Yellow House softball team. Given his coordination issues, Hank knows that he's doomed to fail.

Getting the lead role in the school play should be cause for celebration for Hank. But with school bully McKelty determined to get the role for himself and Hank struggling to learn his lines, it's not as easy as he thought.

Hank accidentally breaks his and Frankie's latest science project and Frankie has to pick up the pieces rather than collect the latest voice-activated games console as soon as it hits the store. Hank offers to go instead, but when he fails to get to the store in time, he hatches an alternative plan instead.

When Nick McKelty oversteps the mark and picks on Hank's little sister Emily, a vengeful Hank decides to make the world's scariest haunted house with the help of best friends Ashley and Frankie.

Rosa decides that Stan and Hank need to bond and she signs them up for the school debate competition whilst she pairs up with Emily. Stan and Emily struggle to cope with Hank and Rosa's more unorthodox approaches to study and Hank's put under even more pressure when Stan bets his coveted Topps Football Card against his mortal rival, Mick McKelty, Nick McKelty's dad.