Summer
ball is a sequel to a book I read earlier in the year called Travel Team, I
also wrote a blog post on Travel Team. Summer ball is written by Mike Lupica,
and it is about Danny Walker who loves playing basketball, it is his life; the only
problem is that he is considered short in the sport of basketball. Even though
Danny is short for the game he is the best in his town, he lead his team to the
national championship, where they won. But he only ever wants to improve, to do
so he leaves his town for the summer and goes off to a summer camp that’s all
about basketball; it is called Right Way basketball camp. Immediately he feels
out of place, he is forced to look up at everyone because of his small size.
Before the practices even start he is worried that he doesn’t have what it
takes to be good enough here, he thinks he’s going to look horrible compared to
everyone else. Danny is lucky he is not alone; he has two of his team mates
with him, Will and Ty. This camp isn’t like a camp where you sign up and get to
go, it’s where they ask you if you want to come and learn from the best; this
means everyone there will be amazing at what they do.
Danny
might have gone with his friends, but when they got further into the camp they
figured out that Danny was going to be in a different cabin. This scared Danny,
he isn’t a kind of guy who goes up to people and makes friends easily. Luckily
for him there was a kid in his cabin who acted just like Danny his name was
Zach. Danny’s hard time at camp got worse whenever he saw the kid who made the
tournament last year hard for him, Rasheed. They had to face off yet again.
Danny doesn’t know whether he wants to leave or not, the camp isn’t what he
expected, he HATES it. Danny is not the type of kid that gives up when
something is tough; he sticks it out, works with his team and along with Zach
Danny starts to enjoy his experience at camp. In the end he stays, learns a lot
and enjoys more things than he did in the beginning.
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