Flat Tires
Tomorrow
Passing and Picking
24 and 32
The Games Begin
Bulldozed and Blitzed
Nasty Notecards
Back-to-School Night
Singled Out
In the Amp
Double-Teamed
Shaking Things Up
I Survived
The H-Word
Massacre at Millwood
Meltdown
Coach Crazier
Fallout
A Must-Win
Happy Writing Day!
Unique
A Very Good Man
Speedy and Ri-Dic-U-Lous
Testing the Limits
The Nasty Nine
Rematch
The Benchmark
Guaranteed
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Phil Bildner
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010
Text copyright © 2015 Phil Bildner
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2015
eBook edition, May 2015
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Bildner, Phil.
A whole new ballgame: a Rip and Red story / Phil Bildner; pictures by Tim Probert.—First edition.
pages cm
Summary: “From the first morning with their odd new teacher fifth grade is full of shocking surprises for best friends Rip and Red”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-374-30130-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-374-30133-0 (e-book)
[1. Teachers—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Best friends—Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction.] I. Probert, Tim, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.B4923Who 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014040150
eISBN 9780374301330