When Chester Howard starts at his new school, Miss Tate sits him next to Joe, the writer from hell. Chester can see Joe’s project ‘How to Write Neatly’ can only be a disaster.

Joe makes a terrible mess of his work, jumbling letters and numbers up together. But a project called ‘How to Write Really Badly’ - now there’s something Joe can do better than anyone else.

And Chester is about to find there’s a lot more to Joe than he expected …