What's inside the journal?
Jake Griffin has one goal for his final year of middle school: make sure people remember his name.
Unfortunately, getting covered in the cafeteria's mysterious Beef Surprise and earning the nickname “Beef Boy” was not exactly what he had in mind.
Determined to repair his reputation, Jake launches a school-wide scavenger hunt with his best friend, Howard. For a while, it works. Everyone is talking about Jake.
Then they stop.
So Jake creates his Master Plan for Becoming Famous, complete with questionable nicknames, terrible trends, a class-president campaign, and several ideas Howard would really prefer he never try.
But when a real problem threatens their final year at school, Jake's ridiculous plans begin turning into something much bigger.
Filled with school disasters, friendship, family chaos, doodles, schemes, and plenty of bad decisions, The Journal of Jake Griffin follows one boy trying very hard to be remembered—and surviving everything that happens along the way.