A Whole New Ball Game

Middle school becomes multiplied in this new series about 12-year-old twins Alex and Ava, whose father is the coach of a small-town Texas high-school football team, which makes them football's first family.

Belle Payton isn’t a twin herself, but she does have twin brothers! She spent much of her childhood in the bleachers reading—er, cheering them on—at their football games. Though she left the South long ago to become a children’s book editor in New York City, Belle still drinks approximately a gallon of sweet tea a week and loves treating her friends to her famous homemade mac-and-cheese. Belle is the author of many books for children and tweens, and is currently having a blast writing two sides to each It Takes Two story.