Summer Ball by Mike Lupica

Have you ever wondered if Danny Walker and his basketball team won the national championships in the book Travel Team? You’re in luck. In the sequel to that book, Summer Ball, all your questions are answered.
This book takes place two years later during the summer. Danny is going up to a summer camp up in Maine, where its basketball 24/7, but does he really want to go? With his lack of height, he might not be able to face up against all the tall players there. But he goes, and has some problems.
He gets put in the dorms with the 11-12 year olds, gets put on a team with a nemesis he made from the national championships playoffs, and gets a coach that absolutley hates him on account of a event that happened when his father was in college. Danny’s father was going to go to the coach’s school for basketball, but decided to go to a different school. That got the coach mad because that same year Danny’s dad lead Syracuse to a league championship.
At one point Danny has a choice where he could choose to go home and leave all those bad things behind and just have a regular summer. But then things seem to turn around, and Danny decides to stay. How, may you ask? Well you will have to see for your self in Summer Ball, by Mike Lupica
Reviewed by Ellie