Thirteen-year-old Lee McGillicuddy begins setting personal records, some bizarre and some very ordinary, in the hopes of proving that he is different from everyone else, but his greatest challenge comes when he must save a friend from certain death.
Finding a new home in a tiny deserted cottage, a stinkbug, who escaped from the circus with a lion, lion tamer, and mouse, reaches his breaking point when his lazy roommates take advantage of him.
Fifteen-year-old Eli Smyth is embarrassed about her mother's work as a foam rubber French fry for a fast food restaurant and jealous of her friend Grace's two cool fathers, and when Eli's mother gets pregnant, it forces Eli to make some significant changes.
A young girl resents Timmerman, the man who moved into her grandfather's old room, until she recognizes his kindness, but rumors about Timmerman's antics at night cause the girl to doubt her new friend.
