hank zipzer barfing in the back seat hank zipzer is a fifth grader who consistently gets in trouble and has learning difficulties in this book hank s dad stanley zipzer raced into the room where the zipzer family was sitting excited he exclaimed road trip he was so happy that he knocked over the raisin bran hank was eating fortunately cheerio their dog consumed the spilled cereal the zipzer family never needed to clean up anything since they got cheerio hank asked if they had to come as well with stan and randi zipzer hank s parents emily who always liked to answer people s questions explained that they would never let them stay home with the tv remote and microwave dinners the only reason dad wanted to go on a road trip was because there was a crossword puzzle tournament hank s dad loved crossword puzzles and when he saw one he never took his eyes of it the only things hank could say were wow oh wow and wowee wow wow wow mum promises that they would go to a theme park called colossus coaster kingdom they were also allowed to bring one special guest of their choice along with them emily chooses katherine her iguana and hank chooses frankie townsend ms adolf gives hank a homework packet which has nine hundred pages and hank cannot go on any of the rides until he finishes all of his homework they are all allowed to choose a place to stop at dad picked a library emily and katherine choose the science museum frankie townsend picks a basketball court mum chooses a honey farm and hank chooses the theme park dad looked at the library emily studied the museum mum looked the farm and they went to a hotel where hank loses his homework frankie had to give up twenty pounds and his trip to the court just to save hank hank doesn t finish his homework on time and cannot go on any of the rides he had to watch his dad complete all his crossword puzzles mr zipzer becomes one of the top five people who participated everyone didn t complete the puzzle in the time that was given first place was martina stone from cheyenne wyoming second place was hank s dad since hank didn t complete the homework packet he had no idea what words will come out of ms adolf s mouth this time anyway hank didn t care about not completing his homework because always getting detention was usual for him