Summer Ball

By Mike Lupica

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

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.