Spring break has arrived, so Fillmore's taking the time to visit his former partner, Wayne Liggett. In Wayne's new school, something about the Safety Patrol stinks. The prize pralines of the school have been stolen, and the prime suspect is their Patrol Sheriff Thrift—who just so happens to be the son of their principal.

Mrs. Cornwall's pre-algebra final exam looks like it's going to be a tough one. However, some of her students have decided to take more extreme measures beyond studying. Fillmore sleeps over in the school to safeguard the exam, but an unexpected blizzard leaves him standing alone to face a desperate gang of determined exam thieves.

Something's down at the X Middle School Open—professional golfers are failing at games, and foul play is suspected. Normally, Fillmore would be all-up for an undercover job like this, but something in his past is making him hesitate.

Vampirita, a series of novels about an astronaut vampiress, has attracted a huge following at X—and none moreso than Torrey and Terri. The next installment of the series will be released in a fortnight, and until then, fans can audition to star in the next book. The girls start to build projects to win the auditions, but every time one is finished, it gets sabotaged. The main suspects are two members of a rival novel's fan club, however, the evidence seems to point to neither of them.

Vallejo's nearing his second term test for Junior Commissioner, and in the meantime, a crime crops up involving "The Shredder", an anonymous criminal who shreds people's pet projects. Unfortunately, not a single one of the victims saw the Shredder's face. This seems like a job for Vallejo's old profiler partner, Frank Bishop, who was driven from the Safety Patrol in disgrace. He is tasked to deduce a pattern to the Shredder's crimes and discover who is next on the list.

The Ultrabox, the hottest new game system on the market, makes its debut at X, and everyone wants one—including "The Maestro," a gaming mastermind who will stop at nothing to get it. Fillmore and Ingrid track him down, but the Ultrabox is stolen while he's in custody. It looks like a copycat is on the loose.

Fillmore's partner moves away to Tennessee, and he is partnered up with Brad Parnassus, the smartest kid at X Middle School. Rebellious and super-smart new student Ingrid Third doesn't take her introduction to X student body well at all, and a giant stink bomb soon explodes in the hallways.

Fillmore and Ingrid investigate the mysterious vanishing of a student named Alexis, only to find that all reports of her have vanished from the school, and she's even been taken out of pictures. Meanwhile, someone is working on a computer virus called Electric Haircut, which must be stopped before it causes any irreparable damage.

After accidentally destroying Folsom's birthday party, Fillmore and Ingrid are asked to do convention duty. However, the train convention experiences sabotage, leaving the entire convention ruined. Fillmore and Ingrid first suspect the RC Car Club to be behind it, but the evidence points in the other direction.

Guildenstern, the Science Department's tarantula mascot, has been poisoned, and the prime suspect, Eric Orben, has escaped into the city. Fillmore is given a permit to go out and track him down, but he has to contend with a relentless opponent from his bad-boy past.

X Middle School's best hope to break a losing streak is Checkmatey, a flamboyant rapper who is X's finest chess player. However, Checkmatey is kidnapped before the championship match, and multiple suspects possess a suitable motive for the crime. Fillmore and Ingrid are on the case—but the clock is ticking down and Checkmatey is nowhere to be found.

Four victims—Wilbur, Grover, Becca and Stella. Four bullies—Rochelle, Bryan, Fiona and Horace. Someone's fed up of people being made to feel small and scared and is targeting each victim's bully respectively. Despite not wanting to help bullies, Fillmore starts to investigate who would want to scare the bullies so much. The main suspects are the four victims, but the victim of each bully is proven to have an alibi.

The heat is on from Student Council Representative Peabody to get illegal term papers off the street, but the perps always seem one step ahead of the Safety Patrol. After a botched raid and the sabotage of his bike, Fillmore turns to Sonny Lombard, his old partner from his bad-boy days. They track the papers back to Rudy Teravall, the Kingpin of Home Economics, but just as Fillmore and Ingrid get ready to move in on Rudy's gang, Peabody gets tipped off about bootleg hall passes in Fillmore's desk, resulting in Fillmore getting suspended from the force. Nonetheless, Fillmore is determined to find the term papers—with or without his badge.

Someone has stolen X Middle School's beloved mascot, Lobstee the Lobster. Time is running out for both Lobstee and the Bocce Team, and the key to finding him before time runs out might be X's resident psychic, Alistair Greystone.

X Middle School's bathroom renovation project teeters on the brink of disaster as the new tagger "STAINLESS" strikes at will. Out of leads, Fillmore and Ingrid turn to Randall Julian, the former vandal "FLAVA SAVA", currently in solitary detention. His help puts them back on the trail, but Randall escapes, forcing Fillmore and Ingrid to hunt down both "STAINLESS" and "FLAVA SAVA" before they strike again.

Facing expulsion under Principal Folsom's new "Three Strikes, You're Out" rule, Fillmore must protect the only person capable of clearing his name to a crime he has been framed for—the destruction of a giant Folsom statue made out of 12,000 pieces of macaroni.