Sam Bellows is the sort of boy parents call "mischievous," teachers call "unruly," ministers call "devilish," and elderly pedestrians call "in the way." But nothing will prepare him for his first, terrifying day of High School. When he becomes the youngest student ever to receive a Detention in the long, strict history of Handley Grammar, Sam discovers astonishing things about himself he can barely believe- before stumbling on the horrible truth about his family he would rather not.