Fred's family runs a fishmarket, and it's renovation time in the store. When grandmother Jackie arrives to help, disaster strikes - and Fred and his cat are right in the middle of all the trouble. This is a story of mayhem mixed up with lots of love.

Fred likes to imagine great adventures. When he goes ice fishing with his father he imagines they are Inuit hunters in an igloo. However, when he finds himself alone on an ice floe, floating away from dry land and his dad, Fred wishes his chilling real-life adventure would soon end.

Fred can't figure out why William is ignoring him. They used to be the very best of friends. When he finds out why, he plans to get revenge on Jake, the new kid in school who is causing all the trouble. Fred's secret weapon is a special kind of super-smelly imported cheese. In front of the whole class, he will expose Jake as a stinker.