The Sports Pages , the third volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, features ten short stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home plate. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are a collection of stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field. Authors include Dustin Brown, James Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Chris Crutcher, Tim Green, Dan Gutman, Gordon Korman, Chris Rylander, Anne Ursu, and Jacqueline Woodson, with illustrations by Dan Santat. A must-have collection for the boys in your library-and while you’re at it, get a copy for the girls, too! - Booklist (starred review), about Guys Read: Funny Business Future volumes will cover such genres as nonfiction, science fiction, mystery, and sports. If they’re as good as this one, boys--and girls--are in for a treat. - Publishers Weekly (starred review), about Guys Read: Funny Business Funny Business, sets the bar high....Will have readers laughing as they turn the pages. - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) Ten stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home plate, from the following perennial all-stars: Dustin Brown James Brown Joseph Bruchac Chris Crutcher Tim Green Dan Gutman Gordon Korman Chris Rylander Anne Ursu Jacqueline Woodson with illustrations by Dan Santat Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales , Math Curse, Robot Zot! , and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. For more great books, more great facts, and more about your favorite authors, head over to www.guysread.com. You'll be glad you did. Gordon Korman  published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than one hundred middle grade and teen novels. Favorites include the  New York Times  bestselling  Ungifted ,  Supergifted ,  The Superteacher Project , The Unteachables ,  Pop ,  Notorious ,  Unplugged ,  Operation Do-Over , Slugfest , and the Masterminds series. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. You can visit him online at gordonkorman.com. Chris Rylander is the author of the Fourth Stall saga and the Epic Series of Failures trilogy, as well as Codename Zero and its sequels. A fan of baseball, statistics, and baseball statistics, he lives with his family in Chicago. You can visit him online at www.chrisrylander.com. Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 2 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 37 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com. Anne Ursu is the author of the acclaimed novels The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy , The Lost Girl , Breadcrumbs , and The Real Boy , which was longlisted for the National Book Award. The recipient of a McKnight Fellowship Award in Children’s Literature, Anne lives in Minneapolis with her family and an ever-growing number of cats. Used Book in Good Condition