Jake Blatowski can't wait for high school-basketball, calculus, and a cafeteria that isn't under investigation by the health department.
But he'll have to wait: A computer malfunction has assigned him to the fifth grade!
It's bad enough that he bangs his knees on the desks or that Miss Percy is going over long division . . . again . . . but Jake has to sit next to Dana Volt, a perpetually surly troublemaker determined to make his life a living hell.
Worse yet, Dana secretly belongs to a coalition of girls who protect humanity from the horde of deadly monsters plaguing the city-monsters that have chosen Jake as their next target!
Jake's no hero; he just wants to make it to varsity tryouts. But now the impulsive and moody Dana is the only one who can save Jake from certain death-and Jake is the only one who can save Dana from herself.
