Miracle On 49th Street Themes

For the novel project I read an amazing book called Miracle on 49th Street written by Mike Lupica who writes a lot of sport books. The book was about this little girl trying to get a guy to believe that he was her father. The book had several themes to it. They were everything happens for a reason, never give up and make sure you believe in yourself and people can change.
In the beginning of the book Molly Parker a twelve-year-old girl is trying to convince her dad who is Josh Cameron a famous basketball player that he was her father. Her mother died of cancer. The place she was at didn’t feel like she was at home with a family she wanted to be with her dad, but he didn’t know that she even existed. She only had one friend named Sam. Sam and her did everything together throughout this book, he did nothing but stayed by her side and helped her through everything. At first, Josh blew Molly off not believing her before she explained. Finally, she gave him a letter making him realize that he could be hers because in the letter that Molly’s mom wrote, there were only details that her mom knew.
As the book kept going, Josh clung onto her which means he cared about her a lot. He never cared about anyone, he only cared about basketball and himself. At first, he would be on his phone calling people so they
When they got into his car Josh was in there. They finally got talking and she forgave him but his mean agent was saying she would ruin his career and that she’s just in the way. There were only a few days left before the day after Christmas… She told him finally that the day after Christmas that she was moving to L.A. and that he should be happy for her. Deep down he didn’t want her too. A few days before they were leaving she didn’t want to leave and he didn’t want her to leave. They ended up being together as a family, but then the book ended right