Summer Ball

By Mike Lupica

Subjects: Competition, Sports fiction, Littérature de jeunesse anglaise, Thirteen-year-old boys, Competition in teenagers, Summer camps, Self-confidence, Juvenile fiction, Basketball, Bullying and bullies, Fiction, Children of athletes, Social acceptance, Basketball, fiction, Basketball coaching, Athletic coaches, Children's fiction, Misfits (Persons), Realistic fiction, Basketball camps, Short boys, Basketball stories, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Camps, Teenagers, Friendship, Basket-ball, Camps, fiction, Teenage boys, Leadership in athletes, Sports, Self-confidence in teenage boys, Coming of age

Description: When you're the smallest kid playing a big man's game, the challenges never stop—especially when your name is Danny Walker. Leading your travel team to the national championship may seem like a dream come true, but for Danny, being at the top just means the competition tries that much harder to knock him off. Now Danny's leaving Middletown for the summer and heading to Right Way basketball camp, where he's out of his element and maybe out of his league. The country's best ballers are in attendance, and Danny will need to raise his game if he wants to match up. But it won't be easy. Old rivals and new battles leave Danny wondering if he really has what it takes to stand tall.