Who would want to join a club called Dunces Anonymous? It was a dumb name. It was a dumb idea. Still, what else could he do? He needed help. Josh was in terrible trouble, and he couldn't think of a way out of it by himself. "Flunkers of the world unite! The fine art of failure has a new champion. Well, three of them, actually, and never has losing been such laugh-out-loud fun." -Tim Wynne-Jones Josh Johnson's mother wants him to run for class president. Josh just wants to run and hide. If only there were a club to help downtrodden eleven-year-olds escape their parents' ambitions! But since no such club exists, Josh has to invent one, and Dunces Anonymous is born. With new friends Wang and Magnolia, Josh sets out to change the world, one parent at a time.