![]() Rip and Red are best friends on their fifth grade basketball team. Their new teacher and coach Mr. Acevedo challenges the easy-going Rip to be more social with an angry differently-abled student. While Red, a boy with autism spectrum disorder, is challenged to play a game without the orderly rules he is used to. I grabbed this book because I loved the illustrations and I was working on a book about boys who love basketball (Misadventures of Marvin Miller). Even though our books are totally different in theme and style, I learned a lot from Phil Bildner's novel. His characters are well-drawn and have both humor and heart, a balance which is difficult to find. The illustrations are practically perfect and mirrored my visions of the boys and girls of the story. As a teacher, I appreciated the story line of Mr. Acevedo as he struggled to creatively challenge his students while also fulfilling new testing requirements. As a reader and writer of middle grade fiction, I completely appreciated this book, particularly its accurate but sensitive depiction of pre-teens with autism... and of course the exciting and realistic basketball scenes! Buy it HERE on Amazon
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