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Jerry Flack, from Dork on the Run, returns in another story of middle-school angst. The busy plot finds Jerry preparing for the sixth-grade Elizabethan Festival, helping his little sister put on a play, and enduring a number of indignities (including wearing a dress) to help his girlfriend acquire a dog. Jerry's continuing growth is convincingly detailed in this amusing story.