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Jake Sherman is an [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary Middle School Student]], who is condemned to help his Mr. Dirksen, his grouchy science teacher, finish his experiment as part of a routine detention. However, when [[Lightning Can Do Anything|lightning]] strikes the house, Jake gets knocked out, and wakes up in his teacher's body. After that, his middle school life is pretty much doomed to [[Hilarity Ensues|wackiness and hilarity.]]
Written between 1994 and 2001 by Todd Strasser, this series ''would have'' been a very popular series, but was overshadowed by the monumental popularity of series like ''[[
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* [[Bluff the Impostor]]: Jessica (Jake's sister) tries a blending of these tropes on Jake and Mr. Dirksen, to see which is which. Finally, she asks Jake a trick question to see if it's really him, and he answers it correctly.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: In ''Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day Of Summer Camp'', Jake suffers a mild case of this partway through the book. Without breaking away from his BSOD, he demands to be taken away from the camp (his parents would get the refund), and threatens his sister (she ate his doughnuts). All [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Mundane Utility]]: The body-swapping machine has enormous implications on the nature of intelligence, psychology, and the soul. Jake and his friends use it to spend a day as a celebrity, to keep Jake's dog out of obedience school, and to get the local bully expelled.
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* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: See [[Bluff the Impostor]], above.
* [[Spot the Impostor]]: See [[Bluff the Impostor]], above.
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