Basketball Bats (Gym Shorts)

About this book

UNBEATABLE TEAM--MAYBE. UNBEATABLE READING--FOR SURE! The first novel in Betty Hicks 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 Childrens Book of the Year.