After Jacob moves to Montreal, his Dad takes him, Noah and Emma to a wrestling match where Jacob unknowingly bumps into the Hooded Fang, a famous wrestler.
With a desire to look "cool" on his first day at a new school, Jacob borrows his brother's favourite skull t-shirt to wear at school, but the shirt is confiscated by Principal Greedyguts as a violation of the school's dress code, and is placed inside the school's vault.
Jacob's poorly performing hockey team improves significantly under the influence of a Gummer Gormley hockey card he received from his father as a good luck charm. However, this luck ends when school janitor Leo Louse steals it from Jacob's locker.
After Jacob moves to Montreal, his Dad takes him, Noah and Emma to a wrestling match where Jacob unknowingly bumps into the Hooded Fang, a famous wrestler.
Jacob and Buford investigate the sudden popularity of a new newspaper, The Daily Crown, the product of a mind control plot by Carl Fester King using chemicals in the paper's ink (ingested by unsuspecting readers licking it off their hands).
Jacob cheats the system on a pop quiz in his geography class, but is eventually selected as a geography expert for Dreary Meadows' team in a nationally televised quiz bowl.
After Dreary Meadows' gymnasium is given a failing grade by the system's Superintendent, Jacob and his friends try extra hard to raise money in a chocolate fundraiser to bring it up to code.
Jacob is transported back in time to the period of the coureur des bois to investigate the secrets of Claude LaToque, a ghost who ran away from the local graveyard.