Disgusted that a family with three girls moves into the house across the river, nine-year-old Wally and his three brothers declare a practical joke war on the girls.

When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.

Elmer, the patchwork elephant, plays an amusing trick on his grey elephant friends.

Pete is good at playing practical jokes on his friends at camp, but they use science to find a way to pay him back.

"School's out, and Miles and Niles are running wild in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy, lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids' boot camp discover the merrymakers--and vow to destroy them"--

Using a bogus name, the League of Picklemakers, sixth-grader Ben and three recruits start a prank-pulling club and receive funding from their middle school's PTA.

Dreaming of all the fun-filled mischief he wants to enjoy during summer vacation, A.J. is approached by the unsettlingly familiar spirits of summers past, present, and future, who try to convince him to mend his ways.

Stink is confident about the success of his summer science project, but Judy Moody sees the project as an opportunity for a prank.

"For an athlete like Matt Daniels, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It's also the most dangerous. That's because somebody is about to pull a mean prank. The recipe is simple: just add monster blood."--cover, p.4.

Twins Lark and Connor are rehearsing a play when they discover that a fellow actor is playing pranks on the theater company and they need to catch the person responsible before the play gets closed down.