Zinkoff is being interesting

In the story, Loser, Donald Zinkoff, is a very interesting kid.  He is not like other kids where they like to go home and just sit down and watch TV.  This kid loves to be at school and loves to get in trouble and loves to have all the attention.  Zinkoff is very different because his stomach is flipped upside down causing him to puke a lot.  At the point that I'm at in the book right now,  Zinkoff has gotten surgery to fix the flipped stomach issue.  He is now at home wishing that he could go to school.  He even sometimes tries to sneak out of the house to go to school.  This is how much he loves school.  He says that he is very tired of not going to school so he says that he just has to bring the school to him.  He tells himself that he will have a test.  The test is he has to go down into the cellar of the basement.  He is very afraid of the basement cellar.  Everyday he tries to go down the steps a little bit farther before he hits the bottom.