The Fourth Stall Part II

by Chris Rylander

Overview

The life of crime is good.Mac has taken down legendary high school crime boss Staples, business has been booming, and Mac and Vince are getting ready for middle school baseball tryouts. But this can’t last. Mac has always tried to keep his friends close and his enemies closer. But what happens when you can’t tell the difference?

This dilemma walks into the fourth stall in the form of Trixie Von Parkway—an eighth grader with a mean look and an even meaner predicament. The new science teacher is terrorizing her, and she needs Mac to get him off her back. Seems simple enough, but as Mac starts to dig deeper, he finds even more trouble brewing at his school, including a new administrator bent on destroying his business, and indications that Trixie isn’t who she claims to be. In the past, the worst thing that could have happened to Mac was that he might lose a little money, maybe catch a beating. In The Fourth Stall Part II, though, there’s going to be much more on the line than that.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062099259
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/07/2012
Series:	Fourth Stall Series , #2
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Lexile:	830L (what's this?)
File size:	818 KB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Chris Rylander is the author of the Fourth Stall saga and the Epic Series of Failures trilogy, as well as Codename Zero and its sequels. A fan of baseball, statistics, and baseball statistics, he lives with his family in Chicago. You can visit him online at www.chrisrylander.com.

What People are Saying About This

Jon Scieszka

Here is an original-a story that really gets how guys are pals. It’s also funny, mysterious, and true to the heart of what really matters when you are in middle school. Do yourself a favor. Read it. Now.

Editorial Reviews

Here is an original-a story that really gets how guys are pals. It’s also funny, mysterious, and true to the heart of what really matters when you are in middle school. Do yourself a favor. Read it. Now. — Jon Scieszka, about THE FOURTH STALL

Debut novelist Rylander mines a substantial amount of humor and heart from this combination hard-boiled crime novel and middle-grade character piece. A light and enjoyable caper. — Publishers Weekly, about THE FOURTH STALL

Draws in even the most apprehensive young reader… A robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship. — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), about THE FOURTH STALL

Mac narrates the tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre…Excellent. — ALA Booklist, about THE FOURTH STALL

From the Publisher

Mac narrates the tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre…Excellent.

ALA Booklist

Here is an original-a story that really gets how guys are pals. It’s also funny, mysterious, and true to the heart of what really matters when you are in middle school. Do yourself a favor. Read it. Now.

Jon Scieszka

Draws in even the most apprehensive young reader… A robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship.

Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

Someone's out to destroy Mac's middle school, and Mac must find a way to stop him. Christian Barrett, called "Mac" after the television secret agent MacGyver, is a problem-solver, operating out of the fourth stall in the East Wing boys' bathroom in his middle school. For a price, he helps fellow students with their problems: taking care of a bully, forging hall passes, selling test answers, providing completed homework and selling prewritten research papers. And now an eighth-grade girl comes walking into Mac's "office" and wants Mac to take care of a mean teacher trying to get her expelled. But there's "something almost predatory" about this girl, like a rattlesnake, and Mac feels "like a small white mouse or whatever it is that rattlesnakes eat." Her story doesn't quite add up, and in trying to solve her problem, Mac both uncovers larger evil afoot and finds Vice Principal George breathing down his neck. This second installment does better than its predecessor at building and sustaining intrigue, as Mac and his right-hand man Vince must put a stop to Dr. George's evil machinations, even if it means putting himself and his business in jeopardy. Readers will be flushed with excitement to follow Mac's operations from the fourth stall. (Fiction. 9-13)

Kirkus Reviews