**The mischief continues in the second book of a trouble-loving middle-grade series.** Sometimes you find trouble, and sometimes trouble finds you. It’s Seamus Hinkle’s second semester at Kilter Academy, where he’s quickly become an ace troublemaking student. In fact, the headmistress has even entrusted him with a special assignment—one he’s forbidden to share with any of his friends. But Seamus has also come up with his own mission, and it’s a doozy. If Seamus and Lemon, Abe, and Gabby can pull off this cross-country adventure to rescue one of their own, they’ll earn extra-credit demerits for sure. And they might just learn the truth about some huge secrets the adults around them have been keeping…. The second book in T.R. Burns’s Merits of Mischief series boasts the same “irresistible appeal” ( *BCCB* ) of Book One, and is sure to leave readers clamoring for the next installment.