Hot hand, sky-hook, pine brother and kill the clock. If readers don’t know what these terms mean, they sure will after reading Basketball Challenge, the second installment in this informative and fun Challenge series for eight-to twelve-year-old sports fans. Filled with true-or-false and multiple-choice quizzes, crosswords, word scrambles and fill-in-the-blank rap rhymes, Basketball Challenge will test every young fan’s knowledge of the hardwood game. Questions cover a wide range of difficulty, allowing both devoted hoopsrers and curious rookies to earn big points while they learn all kinds of neat things about the game. New fans will learn the difference between a layup and an alley-oop; veteran board-bangers may be surprised to discover that the goals used in the very first basketball game were peach baskets. Lively line drawings illustrate the text; fun facts, jokes and strange tales from the world of round ball provide more amusement between games.