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No one can deny that Jennings has a flair for doing the right thing at the wrong time - and vice versa. With the best will in the world he weaves the threads of a smooth-running school routine into tangled knots of confusion. Fortunately that is not the whole story: Jennings has his own peculiar way of tackling life's problems, and there is always the hope that, by pressing on with his misguided plans beyond the point of no return, he will succeed in turning near-disasters into unexpected triumphs.
Who else but Jennings could have weathered the storms caused by his well-meaning efforts to restore the contents of the lost property cupbord to its rightful owners? Who else, in all innocence, would have encouraged the inhabitants of Linbury village to invade the school in their search for jumble sale bargains?
Whether planning to enliven the tedium of the school concert with novel items of entertainmment or organising secret expeditions to the dry-cleaners', it is Jennings, of course, whose misadventures rock Linbury Court School to its foundations in this hilarious new story about the most popular schoolboy in fiction.

First published in 1964 by Collins.

1 - Wrong Foot Foremost
2 - In Hazard
3 - Surprise Item
4 - The Hitch-Hikers
5 - Web of Crossed Purposes
6 - Gred and Gutter Practice
7 - Sale or return
8 - The Unconsidered Trifles
9 - The Wooden Horse
10 - Vanishing Trick
11 - Open Invitation
12 - The Lure of the Jumble
13 - It's an Ill Wind
14 - Tricky Predicament