Type of bind: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: October 25, 2004
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 544924
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Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court, but no one has a bigger love of the game, or a better sense of how to hit the open player with the perfect pass. Then the local travel team—the same travel team Danny’s dad, Richie Walker, led to the national championship on ESPN when he was a kid— cuts Danny because of his height. But Danny isn’t about to give up on basketball. It turns out that he’s not the only kid who was cut for the wrong reasons. Now Danny and his dad are about to give all the castoffs a second chance and prove that you can’t measure heart.
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I enjoyed reading this book which I will you in my classroom. It deals with a lot of problems that children go through with their families and school.
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Travel Team by Mike Lupica is about a boy named Danny Walker who is said to be too short to play on the basketball travel team, so he tries to prove everybody wrong. Then he and his dad create their own team. Pre-teens who like basketball will want to read this book.
Readers looking for a book about basketball will enjoy this book. This book would probably be better for boys. The characters and the setting seemed real. The conflict seemed like it could happen to someone in the same situation. While there is some inappropriate language, it makes the characters seem real. Overall this was a great book because it had a lot of detail to help make pictures in the readers mind.
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Travel Team by Mike Lupica is an exciting book about a twelve year old boy named Danny. Danny is a very good basketball player who has been cut from his team because he is too short. Danny and his father form their own team from the other children who were cut and have a shot at beating the Vikings.
Travel Team is a very exciting and funny book. The only with the book is that it used some words that it could have done without such as the cursing. The Travel Team is worth reading because it has a great plot and Mike Lupica uses third person narration which is makes me feel like I'm there with Danny and it is usually easier to understand, which makes it a great book for kids.
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Mike Lupica's Travel Team is an engaging story about a thrown-together team that was started because some of the kids that tried out for the town travel team were meaninglessly rejected at the tryouts. Danny Walker was the most offended player that was deferred by the harsh scouts at the tryouts because of his small size. His dad, Richie Walker, was the star point guard of the 12-year-old Middletown Vikings travel team when they won the nationals. Richie was described by sportscasters back then as "The biggest little kid from the biggest little town in the world" (21) when his team was on their way towards an upset in the Nationals Championship. Danny's dad soon decides that all of the discarded players that didn't even get a chance should still be able to play, so he arranges another travel team for the town and gives them all a chance to play. The conflicts along the way for the Middletown Warriors are a huge battle for them, but they manage to gather enough players and enter the local seventh-grade travel team league.
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I've spent many years involved in youth Basketball and Lupica captures it very well. Both my young son and I enjoyed the book, and the basketball games themselves flowed nicely. A little hackneyed backstory (in youth basketball the little guys are the stars as bigger kids grow into their coodination so the "poor little guy" angle was tough to take) but it's all well presented and the targeted audience will believe.
Overall something to recommend.
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