A second entry in a new series by the author of the How I Survived Middle School series finds a reformed George volunteering for stagehand duties for the school talent show and encountering more trouble than he ever could have anticipated. Original.

The annual talent show at Shirley S. Sugarman Elementary School is in just a few weeks, and George signs up to be a stagehand. He is determined to do a good job because the new, improved George is responsible and helpful and glad to pitch in. So is comic mayhem coming? Oh yeah, absolutely! But leave it to Nancy Krulik to devise an unexpected way for disaster to strike and bring down the curtain.

As the students at his school prepare for a talent show and class presentations about Hawaii, fourth-grader George tries hard to behave, but his magic super burps keep getting him in trouble.

The annual talent show at Shirley S. Sugarman Elementary School is in just a few weeks, and George signs up to be a stagehand. He is determined to do a good job because the new, improved George is responsible and helpful and glad to pitch in. So is comic mayhem coming? Oh yeah, absolutely! But leave it to Nancy Krulik to devise an unexpected way for disaster to strike and bring down the curtain.