Although Miles gets somewhat run-over in the process. These two pranksters have a ways to go with setting aside their egos if they are to be friends, but they manage it in the end because as they admire different qualities in each other. The mastermind prankster really wants to team up with Miles but he messes up by insulting Miles and being condescending. Sometimes kids think they are being funny when they are really being mean. The James Bond prankster tries to teach Miles that showing up to a party and then running off with all the presents is not going to win him friends. Instead Miles is being mean to kids and turning them off. Mile's desire for self-glory is one of the downfalls, as well as, he is supposed to prank a person that deserves it (the goat).

First, Miles wants people to know he did the prank. Miles doesn't get some of the fundamentals in pranking as his rival points out. However, he gets upstaged by his James Bond prankster rival, who has revealed himself to Miles by this time in the story.

Miles plans to show up and surprise everyone with his prank by revealing it is him and taking off with the gifts. He invents a supercool fictitious student that is having a birthday party and invites 12 students who invite everyone else in the class. Miles Murphy needs to make a statement and top this principal-car-blocking-entrance prank. The slapstick humor and message of when taking jokes too far hurts others make this a keeper. A prank war ensues where Miles learns he just might not be the James Bond of pranksters and friendships have more meaning than constant jokes. The only problem is that Miles was the Prankster at his previous school and there can't be two King pranksters in the same school. Miles is pretty depressed until he goes to the first day of school and sees the ultimate prank, someone blocked the front doors of school with the principal's car. The school marquee reads, 'Welcome back bovines,' and the principal has written a fact book about cows. Dairy farms surround the town of 10,000 and the night air is not full of the sounds of crickets but cows mooing. The founding father statue in the park is a cow. Miles Murphy is moving to the town Yawnee Valley where they revere their cows. Potato Head's twin, was leading cheers at sporting events. The students would try and modify it to 'potato studs,' but it didn't help when the mascot, that looked like Mr.

When we moved to northern Minnesota the high school mascot was a potato spud.

The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett