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The Fourth Stall, Part II

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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.

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    • Kirkus

      January 1, 2012
      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)

      (COPYRIGHT (2012) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

    • Booklist

      March 1, 2012
      Grades 4-7 Chicago Cubsloving sixth-graders Mac and Vince continue to ply their trade of helping fellow students from their washroom office on a pay-per-solution basis. In this second installment, however, the biggest problems seem to be schoolwide: strange food in the cafeteria; a new Jekyll-and-Hyde teacher; and, certainly worst, a creepy new vice principal, who brings in an unbeatable standardized test called SMART. Rylander writes with hilarious wit, giving Vince spectacularly goofy monologues, and creates delightful minor characters. Those who enjoyed the first round will enjoy this second installment at least as well.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2012
      Sixth-graders Mac and Vince ([cf2]The Fourth Stall[cf1]) continue to operate their detective business out of the school bathroom. This time they're investigating a new administrator's plan to "clean up" the school via standardized testing. Rylander deftly blends humor and mystery in this tale that's told in the style of a noir detective story, right down to the femme fatale with an axe to grind.

      (Copyright 2012 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:5.6
  • Lexile® Measure:830
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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