Cheers for the Cheetahs
Cheers for the Cheetahs Cheers for the Cheetahs Hannah Adams held her breath. The ball bounced hard on the edge of the basketball hoop and rolled around the rim. "Please," whispered Hannah. "Go in." The ball wobbled, tipped, and fell off the hoop. Hannah sighed. She had missed again. "Try it this way," said Ellie. She bounced the ball once, shot, and sank it in the net. "You make it look so easy," said Hannah. "It's not." "Don't worry about it," said Ellie. "We have enough players to pr
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Cheers for the Cheetahs
Cheers for the Cheetahs
Hannah Adams held her breath.The ball bounced hard on the edge of the basketball hoop and rolled around the rim.
"Please," whispered Hannah. "Go in." The ball wobbled, tipped, and fell off the hoop.Hannah sighed. She had missed again.
"Try it this way," said Ellie. She bounced the ball once, shot, and sank it in the net.
"You make it look so easy," said Hannah. "It's not."
"Don't worry about it," said Ellie."We have enough players to prove to Mr. Giddings how good we are.What we really need now is someone who can write. No one is better at that than you."
Hannah smiled at her friend. Ellie always knew what to say to make Hannah feel better.They were almost like sisters, except that they were so different.
Hannah was tall and not very graceful when she ran.Her feet always seemed to be in her way.Even so, Hannah loved sports. She never gave up trying to get better at them.
Ellie, on the other hand, was good at every sport she tried.She moved very quickly, just like a basketball player who would win an Olympic gold medal.In fact, that was her nickname: Goldie.
The two girls had been practicing their shots.They wanted to prove that the girls in their fourth-grade class could play basketball as well as any of the boys.
Mr. Giddings, their gym teacher, did not seem to think that was possible.He was the coach for the boys' basketball team.He never asked girls to join his winning team. He hardly ever noticed the girls.He always gave the boys more playing time than the girls during gym class.
"It's unbelievable," said Goldie one day after gym.She, Hannah, and some of the other girls were eating lunch together."He doesn't even see us. We could skip gym and he'd never notice."
"How could he not notice you, Goldie?" marveled Hannah."You're better than any of the boys.And Lizzie and Charlene are easily as good as Hakim and Freddy.We've got to show him. Maybe Ms. Clemens can help us."Ms. Clemens was the principal at Emberly Elementary.
