After Jacob moves to Montreal, his Dad takes him, Noah and Emma to a wrestling match where Jacob unknowingly bumps into the Hooded Fang, a famous wrestler.

With a desire to look "cool" on his first day at a new school, Jacob borrows his brother's favourite skull t-shirt to wear at school, but the shirt is confiscated by Principal Greedyguts as a violation of the school's dress code, and is placed inside the school's vault.

Jacob's poorly performing hockey team improves significantly under the influence of a Gummer Gormley hockey card he received from his father as a good luck charm. However, this luck ends when school janitor Leo Louse steals it from Jacob's locker.

Principal Greedyguts replaces the school's lunch lady with Leo Louse in a move to make more money for himself. Jacob investigates the plot with the help of his neighbour, X. Barnaby Dinglebat, a master spy.

Jacob and Buford investigate the sudden popularity of a new newspaper, The Daily Crown, the product of a mind control plot by Carl Fester King using chemicals in the paper's ink (ingested by unsuspecting readers licking it off their hands).

Jacob and his friends hunt for a 40-year-old treasure dictated by an old library book.

Jacob's hair has a bad cowlick on his school's picture day,

Jacob cheats the system on a pop quiz in his geography class, but is eventually selected as a geography expert for Dreary Meadows' team in a nationally televised quiz bowl.

After Dreary Meadows' gymnasium is given a failing grade by the system's Superintendent, Jacob and his friends try extra hard to raise money in a chocolate fundraiser to bring it up to code.

Jacob is given the task of fetching bagels for his dad's Sunday brunch, however the relatively simple task is complicated by various occurrences.

Jacob investigates a plot by a group of seniors to knit a giant tea cosy to cover the entire city of Montreal for the winter.

Jacob is transported back in time to the period of the coureur des bois to investigate the secrets of Claude LaToque, a ghost who ran away from the local graveyard.

Aunt Good-For-You's health shakes cause greater issues to the family than intended.