The fourth stall / Rylander, Chris

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.

"Mac and Vince have gotten out of their middle school underworld crime business, but an upstart rival business and a run-in with an old nemesis pull them back in"--Provided by publisher.

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.

Chicago Cubs fan "Mac" Barrett, a fifth-grade "Godfather" who runs a favor-granting business out of the fourth stall of the boys' bathroom, is challenged by the bullying teenaged leader of a gambling ring.

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince find their business threatened by a new administrator, hired to clean up the school, and face added dilemmas when they agree to help Trixie Von Parkway, an eighth-grader who wants to get a teacher fired and who might not be who she claims to be.

When Mac takes a case that involves keeping a belligerent teacher off a fellow student's back, his investigation unearths even larger problems at his school. Even worse, he learns that his new "client" is not who she claims to be.

Mac and Vince close their middle school underworld crime business, but an upstart rival business and a run-in with an old nemesis pull them back in.

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.