Monday, February 24, 2014

Summer Ball

Summer Ball
Mike Lupica
Book Review #2

Danny Walker is the smallest kid playing basketball but that won’t stop him.  Danny is back again for another travel team championship. His passion and respect for basketball is tremendous. Anything and everything he does has something about basketball in it. His whole life is focused around basketball. So for the summer Danny goes to camp Right Way to improve his ability’s and get to know basketball a little bit more.
When Danny gets to camp he is amazed by how many courts, professional players and huts he sees. So after he gets settled and looks around, Danny sees his old rival, Rasheed the person he beat last year on the travel team. Rasheed is with another person by the name Lamar. He and Rasheed are on a court playing against each other. So when Danny saw him he knew that he was off to a rough start.
Despite Rasheed and Lamar being there Danny starts to feel more accustomed to Right Way. Then when the draft comes it all goes downhill from there. Danny was picked by the coach that his dad had known when he was little. Coach Powers is one of the many coaches that don’t really care for the sport, and focus more on the championship. When Danny finds out that Rasheed was also drafted to Coach Powers team he starts to worry.
Danny can suffer with Rasheed, but then he finds out that all Coach Powers wants is a championship he starts to worry. With his friends by his side Danny will find a way to overcome all of the things that is thrown his way. With old and new enemy’s anything is possible to happen to Danny.


       

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