The Mars Stars are a good team! They''re tired of the Martian jokes! So what if they have a player who can''t skate backward, and another who can''t skate forward? So what if they have a coach who calls everything a ?whatchamacallit?? They know that they can prove to the league that they belong there, no matter what obstacles stand in their way. Join school sportswriter ?Chipmunk? Adelman, in this hilarious series, as he follows his hometown hockey team, the Mars Stars, and chronicles their struggle to earn some respect in the Waterloo Slapshot League.

Gordon Korman has written more than fifty books for children and young adults, including four ALA Best Books for Young Adults: Son of the Mob, A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, Son of Interflux and Losing Joe''s Place. When he was 12, he wrote his first book, This Can''t Be Happening!, about the adventures of two friends, Bruno and Boots, who went to a boarding school called Macdonald Hall. He has written six other books about Macdonald Hall, which have recently been reissued. Gordon has also written The New York Times bestseller, 39 Clues: One False Note and plans to write more for the series. He also wrote Swindle, a Silver Birch nominee, and its sequel, Zoobreak. Other popular Korman books include: The Juvie Three, Pop, The 6th Grade Nickname Game, Jake Reinvented, Maxx Comedy, The Everest Trilogy, The Island Trilogy and The Dive Trilogy. A native of Thornhill, Ontario, and a graduate of New York University''s School of Dramatic Writing, Korman lives in New York with his family and writes full-time.