Pirate code, landlubber law: in one, you take what you need, and it’s yours. In the other… it’s a little more complicated. The Jolley-Rogers find this out as all their belongings are seized, to pay for Jim and Matilda’s last blunder: destroying Ted Winner’s prize ship. The pirate family is left with no roof on their heads! And no, they really can’t just board their former house to reclaim property. So the Jolley-Rogers set up camp at Matilda’s. To make matters worse, the house and ship end up in the hands of… Ted, himself! It’s now “the Winners next-door”!! Matilda can’t stand going to school with Brent, and Jim suddenly feels he very much misses his old bed. It is his, by right!! They are going to need a really good idea to get rid of the newcomers…