Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica is a very good book. The book related to me because I play football like Nate but he played QB and i'm a wide receiver. But I really liked how mike lupica kept is still reading by adding some misfortunes to his family and best friend and us "the readers" wanted...
great book I really liked this book because of football. I recommend it to anybody who likes football.
A great book about a kid who's dream has come true. He is finally a batboy for the Detroit Tigers. He also loves playing baseball himself, but nothing is better to him than the MLB. He is the son of a MLB pitcher, who retired, and divorced from his mom. He went to go live in Japan, and be a pitch...
I Thought this book was amazing for my taste in reading because I love books that I can relate with. In this book a whole lot of the book was about football. Football is one of my favorite activity's. This is for sure one of my favorite books I have ever read because of how much I can compare to ...
The Game ChangerThe book i read was Game Changer by Mike lupica.My favorite part of the book is when Ben got to be friends with the team quater back Shawn. I liked this because like football and i like to see people getting along. Shawn and ben weren't friends until ben offered to but hm pizza. ...
I thought this book was awesome by the fact that it did show a moral/lesson to like it doesn't if your'e the popular kid or the star player in a team your still a team player whether you score a butch of points or not you should still have sportsmanship. I like how Ned apologized Pedro for being...
This book was a good book, The main character's name is Jake, Jake is trying to help his new soccer team because he has moved from the championship soccer team to the worst team in the division. In the story It is difficult for him because sometimes he wished he didn't move. I thought this was a ...
tThe plot of “Heat” shortened up is a kid moves to New York City from Havana, Cuba to be free and to play baseball. Michael, the main characters, father dies from a heart attack trying to help a woman from her boyfriend who’s mad at her. The only people that know about are Carlos, Michaels brot...
#1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica scores from downtown with his Comeback Kids series for young middle-grade readers. It's simple. All Billy Raynor wants to do is shoot. After all, he is one of the best shooters in the league. But with his dad as his coach, and his parents newly separated...
The #1 Bestseller! Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court -- but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national promi...
In the tradition of About a Boy comes a feel good sports and holiday novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica. Josh Cameron has it all: a World Championship ring with the Boston Celtics, an MVP award, a clean-cut image, and the adoration of millions. What he doesn't have is fa...
#1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica pays tribute to the underdog in his Comeback Kids series for young middle-grade readers Chris Conlan is the coolest kid in sixth grade–the golden-armed quarterback of the football team, and the boy all the others look up to. Scott Parry is the new kid, t...
"Jump" is a dramatic and riveting story told by Mike Lupica. In this seductively powerful thriller, a beautiful young woman accuses Ellis Adair, the best basketball player in the NBA, of rape. Though he claims innocence, the modern day media still bashes and antagonizes him for being involved in ...
The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Travel Team! 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 ...
Drew let him go. Maybe it was because he knew this wasn’t the last conversating they were ever going to do. Or maybe he was too tired from chasing King Gadsen around in the second half to even walk after the man. Knowing he had more questions than answers, even though he’d...
The birth of a son is an opportunity to create an improved version of ourselves. We know what mistakes were made and what opportunities were squandered by our fathers. The arrival of my first son, Marty, gave me a chance to show the world just how great a man I was supposed to have been. One of m...
Conor Bell was their starting pitcher this time, and even though Nick thought Conor had solid stuff, it wasn’t close to Gary Watson’s. Conor couldn’t throw as hard and didn’t have the same control. It meant more hits, more walks, more base runners. More chances to steal. And the Thayer runners we...
When Coach Dayley gathered the players around him before the kickoff, he told them what he knew about the Lions. He’d talked to his friend who coached Palos Verdes—the Palos Verdes Vikings had faced Redondo Beach in their opener—and found out the Lions were big and physical and loved running the ...
D. Frederick’s show, J. D. having announced he was going to conduct a weeklong poll on which quarterback the listeners wanted to be the starter. The town choosing up sides, even in a place where there was usually only one side: behind the Granger Cowboys. ...
All week long Walton kids and Norris kids had been going back and forth about the game on Facebook—all of it in good fun—as a way of hyping up the battle of the league’s two unbeatens. It was 14–13, Walton, at halftime, and so far the game had lived up to all the hype. Teddy had come out on fire,...
She wore it because Carli Lloyd, the star player on the U.S. women’s soccer team that won the 2015 World Cup, the one who’d scored three goals in the final against Japan, wore ten. Em had a poster of Carli Lloyd up on the wall in her room and a huge replica of the Sports I...
Shawn took the snap and ran around and tried to throw it as far as he could to Sam Brown. But as strong as Shawn’s arm was, even at eleven, he couldn’t throw it nearly far enough. The ball ballooned on him a little bit and came down at the Midvale twenty-five. Sam managed to outjump the three def...
No good. The man just grabbed the back of her hoodie. She tried to scream. Same as before: nothing came out. Knit Cap pulled harder on the hoodie, spun her around toward him. That’s when Kate saw the jogger reappear around the corner. Only he wasn’t jogging. You couldn’t even call this running. H...
MORETTI TOLD him on the ride over, were Tom and Carol Lawton. He was a doctor at Moreland Memorial, an orthopedic surgeon. “Like a sports doctor?” “Yep—like that,” Ms. Moretti said, and then told him Carol Lawton had once been an art history profess...