Basketball Bats

Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.

Main Author: Hicks, Betty.
Other Authors: McCauley, Adam (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gym shorts
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Summary: Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.
Physical Description: 55 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN: 1596432438 (hardcover) :
9781596432437 (hardcover) :
Author Notes:

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.