When Stephen Wyatt (Sneeze's)plans to take his latest gadget to the annual Invention Convention are destroyed by his parents and they enroll him instead in a summer-school writing class, he is furious. Luckily, his best friend, Hiccup, has to join the class too, along with Goldie, the Vice-Principal's daughter, Pierre, the future-famous French pastry chef,who barely knows French, Hayley, whose father owns the bankrupt Gadabout Golf minature golf course, and Ace, who's so cool he doesn't even have a last name.

For his first class project, Sneeze comes up with a plan to get revenge on his parents: a list of ways to bug your parents.It keeps growing until he hits upon a brillant plan -- a plan that will make him rich and famous, and enable him to attend the convention without his parents! He decides to sell his book on the school campus,and attend the convention with Regan,the owner of a hardware store. As the list grows,so does Sneeze's biggest and best scheme to make him rich and famous.