Judy Moody’s  2nd grade younger brother, Stink, has earned a $5.00 gift certificate by helping in a college study.  After using his gift certificate to buy a Super-Galactic jawbreaker, Stink writes a letter to the jawbreaker company to state, “It did NOT (I repeat NOT) break my jaw.” The company responds by sending Stink a letter accompanied by an assorted box of 21,280 jawbreakers. Stink’s ensuing dilemmas begin.

At the end of each of the nine chapters, there is a child drawn comic explaining an idiom found in this book.

There is a complete list of 30+ idioms, found within this story, at the end of the book.