by Phil Bildner
Phil Bildner is a former New York City public school teacher who lives in Newburgh, New York. The author of many books, including A Whole New Ballgame, he travels to over sixty schools a year. Visit him at philbildner.com or sign up for email updates here.
Tim Probert is an illustrator of children’s books, including Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School by Kim Baker. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Cafeteria Basketball
The Early Pass
The Lunch Bunch
Takara Eid
Tiki Time
Name That Food
Practice Unexpected
A Whole New Ballgame
CC and Tiki
Operation Food Fight
Clean or Dirty?
The Strategy
Sprinting
Short and Sweet
Pizza and Pushing the Envelope
Read Aloud
Rookie of the Year
Working Me
Plots and Plans
Starting
Benched and Floored
Mission #1
The Opener
The Hot Seat
The Bench Mob
Mission #2
Where I Read
Road Test
Perked Up
Odd Man Out
Happy Writing Day
Journal Entry, 11/27
Swooping and Hooping
Good
Pushing the Envelope
Mission #3
Caught
The Hot Seat, Again
Something’s Up
One on One
Bench Mob!
Sentencing
A Girl in My Bedroom!
Gone
Table for Four
Alone
Leading the Way
Showdown!
Acknowledgments
Also by Phil Bildner
About the Authors
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010
Text copyright © 2016 Phil Bildner
Pictures copyright © 2016 Tim Probert
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2016
eBook edition, July 2016
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Bildner, Phil. | Probert, Tim, illustrator.
Title: Rookie of the year / Phil Bildner; pictures by Tim Probert.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016. | Series: Rip and Red | Summary: “Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015022215 | ISBN 9780374301347 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374301354 (e-book)
Subjects: | CYAC: Schools—Fiction. | Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Basketball—Fiction. | People with disabilities—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Basketball. | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship. | JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B4923 Roo 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015022215
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