Mauser, Pat Rhoads

Ginger needs her new friend for protection at her new school, but in return she is expected to be a party to shoplifting.

At the mercy of the class bully, a fifth grader is sent to a martial arts school where he learns techniques to defend himself as well as a philosophy that allows him not to fight.

Not having anything for "show and tell, " Patti makes up a pet gorilla and then is faced with the problem of showing it to her friends.