<B>The mischief continues in the second book of a trouble-loving middle-grade series.</B><P>Sometimes you find trouble, and sometimes trouble finds you.<P> <P>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.<P> <P>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....<P> <P>The second book in T.R. Burns’s Merits of Mischief series boasts the same “irresistible appeal” (<I>BCCB</I>) of Book One, and is sure to leave readers clamoring for the next installment.