Travel Team by Mike Lupica
	List Price:   $7.99 Unit Price:   $6.39 You Save:   $1.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0142404624 ISBN-13:   9780142404621 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Young Adults, Reading Series Pub. Date:   August 2005 Pages:   288 Format:   Paperback Ages:   10 to 13 Grades:   5 to 8
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Mike Lupica is the author of many novels for sports fans, including Red Zone, Bump and Run, and Wild Pitch. His columns for the New York Daily News are syndicated nationally, and he is a regular on ESPN's The Sports Reporters. Partial to little guys, Mr. Lupica enjoys coaching youth basketball. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and their four children. For the Love of the Game ... 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 size. 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. In his first novel for young readers, the author of 'Wild Pitch' and 'Bump and Run' tells the story of a 12-year-old Danny Walker, the smallest kid on the basketball court who's cut from the very travel team his father led to national prominence as a boy.