Gabby #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGabby and her friends organize a party to welcome the famous French tennis player Mr. Schmobert to the United States, but their plans go awry when Schmobert's shyness and difficulty speaking makes social interaction awkward. Later, Gabby goes horseback riding with friends, where a runaway horse and encounters with wildlife create chaos. In another story segment, Gabby works at a gas station where she accidentally puts the car's gears in reverse, causing the vehicle to crash into the service station pump, resulting in her having to work for a year to pay off the damages.
When Gabby tags along with Taffy and her father Timothy O'Toole to inspect the new O'Toole factory under construction, a series of mishaps at the building site sends Taffy's dad soaring into unexpected trouble—and leaves Gabby scrambling with the control switches to save him. What starts as a well-meaning visit turns into a chaotic comedy of errors as Gabby tries to keep things under control, with consequences neither he nor Mr. O'Toole could have predicted.
When Rollo convinces Ezra to crash a country club tennis party by posing as the famous French player Schmober T, a case of mistaken identity and a conk on the head turn the whole scheme into hilarious chaos. As Ezra stumbles through the evening speaking fractured French and causing mayhem on the courts, his disguise begins to unravel faster than he can say "mon ami." It's a wild ride of mistaken identity and physical comedy that proves sometimes the best-laid plans need more than just a fancy accent.
Gabby Hyatt jumps at the chance to join the boxing team and skip his French exam—until he discovers his opponent is the formidable Spike McBrawn, not the mild-mannered Percy Potts he expected. When McBrawn catches wind of Gabby's trash talk at the soda shop, he makes sure the teen learns a painful lesson before they even step in the ring. By exam time, Gabby finds himself in a predicament where his injuries have left him unable to escape the very test he was trying to avoid.
Gabby Hyatt ditches a picnic date to go fox hunting with the snooty Penelope Van Phipps, but his clumsy antics and refusal to take the whole affair seriously send the day spiraling into comedic chaos. When his friends—including Taffy O'Toole and Peahead Wilson—decide they've had enough of his newfound high-hat attitude, Gabby learns there's a price to acting too good for his real pals.
When Gabby accidentally wrecks Mr. Mack's gas pump at Mack's Service Station, he's forced to work off the damage—and with friends like Peahead Wilson pitching in to help, chaos erupts as customers keep rolling in. Between Algy Duckworth's backseat driving, tire troubles, and a seemingly endless stream of service requests, Gabby and the gang discover that running a gas station is trickier than it looks.
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