Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli [FIRST EDITION] 1991

Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli 

FIRST EDITION / FOURTH PRINTING [1991] SCHOLASTIC PRESS

Rare 1st!  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Ex-library copy in very good condition.   

Dust jacket is sealed in laminate and extremely well preserved; plastic has some fraying to edges / peeling. 

Book itself is very good; clean white pages.  Sticker ghosting to bottom of cloth spine.  Reads great!

A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.

Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry.
Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can Suds's friend Joey teach him to toughen up...or will Suds remain a fourth grade wimp?