Fay LaFarge is NOT looking forward to the upcoming field trip to the Crunch&Barley Cereal Factory, especially when she's stuck in a group with the horrific Barnaby Hootsman. Fay is a girl who can handle such a disaster. She'll just have to make sure the pirate coin that tumbled into her cereal that morning stays out of the wrong hands...including Barnaby Hootsman's! But when Fay's teacher Miss Parsnip's obsession with pirates becomes all too real, the strange coin turns out to matter more than the average cereal box prize...