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Tod Munn is a bully. He’s tough, but times are even tougher. The wimps have stopped coughing up their lunch money. The administration is cracking down. Then to make things worse, Tod and his friends get busted doing something bad. Something really bad.
Lucky Tod must spend his daily detention in a hot, empty room with Mrs. Woodrow, a no-nonsense guidance counselor. He doesn’t know why he’s there, but she does. Tod’s punishment: to scrawl his story in a beat-up notebook. He can be painfully funny and he can be brutally honest. But can Mrs. Woodrow help Tod stop playing the bad guy before he actually turns into one . . . for real?

托德屡犯校规，受到校方的惩罚，被勒令在指导教师伍德罗夫人的监督下，每天放学后写留校日记。为了凑字数，托德或是随意描写眼前所见，或是肆意嘲讽校规及老师和同学，但即便如此，也能从中看出他良好的语言表达能力。其实，伍德罗夫人早就用她独到的眼光发现了这一点，所以，采用了这种独特的处罚方式来挽救托德。每天的留校日记让托德的对抗心理渐渐平复了，他开始真实地、详细地记录自己的生活和所思所感。37篇日记完成后，一个同情弱者、重义守信、聪颖能干、热爱阅读的少年形象跃然纸上，人们更从指导老师伍德罗夫人身上感受到了美好人格感召之下的教育的力量。