Editing Max Keeble's Big Move (section)

==Plot==
Max Keeble is a 12-year-old [[paperboy]] who starts his first day of [[middle school]]. Max is antagonized by the corrupt, megalomaniacal, and tyrannical school principal, Elliot T. Jindrake; school bullies Troy McGinty and Dobbs; and the Evil Ice Cream Man. Max also learns that an [[animal shelter]] he visits next to the school is being closed to build Jindrake's opulent football stadium. One day, Max's father reveals that because of his job, he and the family will be relocating to [[Chicago]] for his boss, because he is unable to stand up for himself. Max realizes that he is free to do whatever he wants to his tormentors, facing no consequences because he will be gone by then.

Enlisting his equally socially outcast friends Robe and Megan, Max sets up a variety of pranks. These include traumatizing Troy by playing the main theme song of the children's television show ''MacGoogles the Highlander Frog'' (which frightened him as a child), then trapping him in the gym with someone wearing a MacGoogles costume; instigating a fight between Dobbs and the Evil Ice Cream Man by stealing the coolant coil for the [[ice cream van|ice cream truck]] and Dobbs' [[Personal digital assistant|handheld device]]; and ruining Jindrake's chances of becoming successor to the current superintendent, Bobby "Crazy Legs" Knebworth (an alumnus who was a star football player for the school) by planting animal [[pheromones]] within his breath spray, instigating a food fight in the cafeteria in view of Superintendent Knebworth, and later by sabotaging his TV announcements by placing a cardboard cutout of Max mocking him.

After Max's missions are completed, Jindrake, Troy and Dobbs somehow find out that Max was behind all the pranks he pulled off. Later, Max ends up ditching Robe and Megan's going-away party by accepting an invitation to a milkshake party hosted by his crush Jenna, causing a falling-out. Robe tells Max how Megan [[limerence|really feels about him]], and then walks away telling Max that he hopes he enjoys his new life in Chicago. Max then calls Megan's house, telling her mom to relay to her that he is sorry for what happened. Taking Max's earlier advice to heart, Max's dad announces that he quit his job and will start his own business, meaning that Max is not moving after all. Max freaks out at this news, and learns that other students at his school are suffering because of his actions.

Max confronts Jindrake, Troy, and Dobbs one final time, and with the help of other students at his school, Max eventually defeats Troy and Dobbs for good by throwing them into the dumpster with his schoolmates' help and stops Jindrake from demolishing the animal shelter. Jindrake is dismissed from his job as principal and faces criminal charges for [[Embezzlement|manipulating the school budget]] in order to build his stadium after Max tricked him into publicly admitting to his crimes earlier.