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Summer ball by Mike Lupica, Mike Lupica is one of the authors that I half way enjoy reading his books as I don't like too read that much. So summer ball involves Danny Walker as Richie Walker's so the famous basketball guy in Middletown. The book involves Danny and a bunch of his basketball friends from middle town going out to one of the biggest basketball camps in Maine. At this basketball camp there are kids that are coming from all over the United States to show how good they are and to improve there skills. Danny and three of his basketball buddy's from his team arrive and are get settled into the camp, now at lunch time they draw the teams they are going to be on for the month they will be there. Danny's luck of the draw just happened to be Ed Powers who tried to get his dad …show more content…
Coach powers was really hard on Danny but at the end of the summer he proved himself the coach and won his respect. A few main things that i really liked about this book was once Danny got to the camp he was not favored because of who his dad was, in fact it made it even. Harder on him due to the coach he drew as Ed Powers. Page 53 explains why the coach was so hard on Danny as he was living in the past and made up the story of Richie Walker backing out of his offer last minute. I liked that in the book as it lasted all summer and made Danny prove himself at the camp and was not just a free easy pass as his dad was Richie Walker. One other thing that I really like and showed what kind of a kid Danny really was when he stayed in the younger kids group and his room mate Zach was having a ruff time and Danny was there for him and got him to end up liking and staying at camp instead of going home. I didn't really have any dislikes about this book as it included many other

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