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Basketball Bats/Goof-Off Goalie
Contributor(s): Hicks, Betty (Author), McCauley, Adam (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0312582471     ISBN-13: 9780312582470
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $13.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2009
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Annotation: Hicks's new action-filled sports series packs the energy of the gym into two short novels for kids who are new to reading.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Readers - Chapter Books
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 490
Series: Gym Shorts
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 6.9" (0.25 lbs) 130 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Self-Esteem
 
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Publisher Description:

Basketball Bats
Henry and his four friends on Rockford Road are an unbeatable basketball team--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? Henry feels sure he can lead his friends to victory, but is he really a team player? Or is he a ball hog?

Goof-Off Goalie
There's nothing Goose wants more than to play goalie for his soccer team. It looks like so much fun--and so easy!--on TV. But can he quit daydreaming long enough to stop the ball? With Henry's training, Goose is sure he can go from goof-off to goalie in no time. Just as Goose starts to improve, Henry gets grounded because his grades are slipping. Will Goose help Henry in return? Or is being a goalie more important than friendship?

Basketball Bats and Goof-Off Goalie are both 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Books of the Year.

Contributor Bio(s): Hicks, Betty: -

Betty Hicks is the author of Basketball Bats and several sports novels for older readers, including Busted! and I Smell Like Ham. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

McCauley, Adam: - 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.