The Janitor's Boy

Jack Rankin has always looked up to his father. But when the middle school students are temporarily housed in the high school where his father works as a janitor, Jack is embarrassed. He lashes out by covering the underside of a desk with gum, and his punishment is to perform janitorial duties after school for three weeks. When Jack walks in his father's shoes for a while, he learns surprising secrets about the old building...and his old man.

Fifth grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father.