Boarding school bullies finally meet their match when scholarship rat Tom inherits a mystical family heirloom. What would you do with magic at your fingertips? The Jiggery Stick can make you invisible, paralyse your opponents, erase their memories and even send cricket balls far from their projected path. The Jiggery Stick is the perfect antidote for life's nastier characters. And it is the perfect inheritance for a schoolboy as he comes of age in war-torn Britain of the 1940s. Preventing bank robberies and landing the bullies in hot water is all in a day's work for our Tom. It's capers...

Tom is sitting on the terrace at Beastleigh Hall when he looks up and sees the Sweeney-Todd gang pushing a huge weighty gargoyle off the roof while the headmaster is sitting directly below it. Even with the help of the Jiggery Stick, Tom has to move fast. He rugby-tackles the headmaster out of his chair, and they sit in a jumbled heap well away from the overturned chair, which has now been crushed by a ton of masonry. Can Tom stop the gang from killing the new headmaster, who is a friend to the Rats?

After he leaves school, Tom kills a gangster with the aid of the Jiggery Stick and...