SynopsisSuds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a rat, to be a grown up fourth-grader., From the 1991 Newbery Medal-winning author of Maniac Magee. "Rats" aren't afraid of spiders, don't carry babyish lunch-boxes, and never cry. But Fourth-grader Suds wishes he were still a third grade angel. "A funny, believable, pithy look at peer pressure and growing up that will strike a familiar note with children".--Publishers Weekly., From the 1991 Newbery Medal-winning author of Maniac Magee. Rats aren't afraid of spiders, don't carry babyish lunch-boxes, and never cry. But Fourth-grader Suds wishes he were still a third grade angel. A funny, believable, pithy look at peer pressure and growing up that will strike a familiar note with children.--Publishers Weekly.