Summer+Ball(PH)

Reviewed by: Patrick Haug
 * //Summer Ball//**, Mike Lupica

After leading his travel basketball team, the Middletown Warriors, to the national championship, Danny Walker is at the top of his game and the top of the world. Now he must step up his game to compete with his competition because they are trying that much harder to knock him off. Danny is leaving Middletown for the summer to go to Josh Cameron’s Right Way Basketball Camp. After having the worst couple of days of his life, Danny wants to get out of the camp as fast as he can so he fakes an injury, but in the middle of all of this he finds out one of his friends, Tess Hewitt is at her uncles house just across Coffee Lake which is where Right Way is located. That night Danny, Ty, Will, and Zach snuck out of camp, stole a canoe and went across the lake to Tess’s house. They talk and he promised her that he would stick it out until the end. Then at the end of one of the next games, Danny saved the day by making a pass off the backboard to Rasheed Hill, the Celtics best player, to defeat the Lakers. The win and the trick play got Lamar Parrish, supposedly the best at the camp, really mad. The next day Danny, Lamar, and Rasheed got in a fight. Because of the fight Danny and Rasheed had to stay away from Lamar as best as they could for the rest of camp, they had to beat him on the court, beat him in the camp championship.


 * __Summer Ball__** is the sequel to Mike Lupica’s travel team. I would recommend this to anyone who likes sports books. The booked surprised you at the end of every chapter because when everything was good it turned out bad and when everything was bad it turned out good. You never knew what would happen next. This book would be a good read for everyone 10 to 15 years old because that is the age of the characters so you can kind of think of them as you and relate to them. So if you are looking for a fast, thrilling and good book look for **__Summer Ball__**.

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