With their fifth grade graduation only weeks away, Rip, Red, and the rest of their classmates must decide if boycotting a test is worth forfeiting their graduation gala and the opportunity to play with Hoops Machine, a Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
Phil Bildner is a former New York City public school teacher and lives in Newburgh, New York. The author of many books, he speaks at numerous schools and libraries every year.
Tim is an illustrator in New York. He has illustrated kids books for MacMillan, Farrar Straus & Giroux and Houghton Mifflin. He’s currently working on his own graphic novel for First Second. Tim also works as an art director at the animation studio Aardman Nathan Love.