Basketball Bats

Betty Hicks

Roaring Brook Press, Apr 1, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 64 pages

UNBEATABLE TEAM--MAYBE. UNBEATABLE READING--FOR SURE! The first novel in Betty Hick's Gym Shorts series is a slam-dunk for newly-independent readers.

Henry and his friends on Rockford Road are a basketball team unstoppable on their driveway court. But without team t-shirts or an official name can they take on The Tigers, a team that plays at the huge YWCA and has a player old enough to shave? Young readers will cheer as The Bats take on a name and stick together to beat the odds.
Basketball Bats is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Contents

• 1 Bug Juice: 1
• 2 Group Growl: 4
• 3 No Fair No Foul: 9
• 4 Becoming a Bat: 14
• 5 The SlamDunk Kid: 18
• 6 Tiger Turf: 24
• 7 Hot Dog: 28
• 8 Waffle Magic: 34
• 9 The Bat Dress: 38
• 10 You the Man: 44
• 11 Third Place: 51

About the author

Betty Hicks, highly regarded for her novels for middle grade and older readers, turns her attention to children ready to begin reading real novels, in this first book in her Gym Shorts series of humorous sports stories, filled with friendship and action. Betty Hicks lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Adam McCauley is the illustrator of the successful middle-grade fiction series, Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka, as well as Louis Sachar's Wayside School books. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Basketball Bats; Gym Shorts
• Author: Betty Hicks
• Illustrated by: Adam McCauley
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1429981768, 9781429981767
• Length: 64 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Readers / Chapter Books; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Basketball