School spirit has never been lower at Marvin Gardens High School, so when a new principal is scheduled to take over, everyone is hoping for change. What they get instead is conman George Thurlow. After causing a car wreck that injures the new principal, George and his sidekick Madge run from the law by posing as the new principal and his secretary, respectively, in a case of stolen identity. Taking on their new roles, the criminals begin to double-talk and dodge their way past pushy school board members, a nosy security guard, overactive students, and the other manic people in the school building in this riotous, plot-twisting tale.
—Pat Cook