"The ball had hit the back of the rim and bounced straight up in the air, as high as the top of the backboard. As it did, Danny got a leg in front of Teddy Moran, planted it good and solid, and, as he did, used perfect rebounding position, elbows out, to shove Teddy hard to the side... It knocked Teddy off balance, made him stumble to his left, just as Ty Ross, who had gone high up in the air when the ball had finally stopped bouncing around the rim, was coming down with the rebound. Danny saw it all happening like it was super slo-mo on television. Or in a video game. Only this wasn't fantasy ball. This was Ty landing on Teddy instead of the basketball floor at St. Pat's... Then Ty was rolling on the floor at St. Pat's cradling his right arm to his stomach, screaming in pain."(page 118)
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Have you ever been cut from a sports team for the wrong reasons? If you have, you can relate to Danny Walker. Danny is a 7th grader at St.Patrick's middle school in Middletown, NY. Danny is VERY short for his age, at only 55 inches. I am taller than him! When Danny gets cut from the Middletown basketball Travel Team, his dad steps in and creates a travel team for all the kids who got cut for the wrong reasons. Will Danny's team take victory? Or crash because of one (possibly many) fatal mistakes from his dad? Find out in the book Travel Team!
Blog by: Jack B.
Book by: Mike Lupica
Genre: Realistic Fiction/ Historical Fiction
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ReplyDeleteIm on the travel baseball team and Im small, But I didnt get cut so cant really relate to it.
ReplyDeleteIm also very small (this is by the person that wrote the last comment)
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