Jebediah Humphries, at the age of fourteen, is undoubtedly the clumsiest, most accident-prone and very worst Wizard in the world, and has certainly acquired a reputation as such at his wizarding summer camp. However, his skills are tested to the utmost when his parents are held to ransom by Ogres and he is catapulted, along with four hapless friends, into a series of hair-brained schemes--kidnapping and theft included--leaving disaster in their wake.