Summer Ball

Mike Lupica
Popular Fiction
Pages 1-72

Danny Walker is back in the sequel to Travel Team, where his team the Middleton Warriors won the national 7th grade travel championship. The book is staged in the summer before Danny enters into high school, where his dad is now coaching the varsity team. It looks like Danny and Ty might be able to play on Varsity as freshmen because of how good they are getting. This summer Danny and Ty are going to the best basketball camp in the country for 13-15 year olds. The Cameron invitational camp is one of the most prestiges camps in the country where college recruits come to watch the middle schoolers play, before they enter into high school. The recruiters are always looking for the next Lebron James. Danny has gotten even better at handling the ball and has perfected his jump shot, but he is still always the shortest player on the court. While Ty has grown and is the best overall player for his age in the state of New York. Danny is excited to get away from Middleton because recently the girl he has always hanged out with (who he really likes) is hanging around with this stud tennis player all the time. The day before they leave for Maine to go to the camp Ty and Danny are playing one on one. Danny blows by Ty easily with a double cross over and he thinks he has a easy layup, but out of no where Ty jumps from behind him and swats his ball down the hill. Danny thinks to himself "that can't be a good sign."

I can't wait to really get into this book, I loved the first one and hope this one is just as good. I think this story will focus even more on Danny's height disadvantaged
and the struggles he will face to keep getting better. The story will also probably use basketball as a way of demonstrating life lessons by comparing basketball to life. The last line that i read suggests that Danny is going to be getting stuffed a lot at camp and he is going to need to practice even harder.