Mike Lupica's Travel Team

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Travel Team, The Best Book Ever. According to Mike Lupica, from New York, “Travel Team is my favorite and most inspirational book i’ve ever wrote. “ Some readers will dislike all of the ups and downs in Danny’s life. But equally important, most readers will think the book is very detailed, it has a good moral, and it is very action-packed.
The book Travel Team Is a very detailed book. It makes readers feel like as if they are with Danny in his basketball and family adventures. While he plays his games and goes to practice, Mike gives every detail from what their feeling all the way to the sweat drops in games. Not to mention, on page 134, he says every detail about the streaks of light and rain falling down. All in all, Travel Team uses lots of amazing details.
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Of the books written by Mike Lupica in the past, Travel Team has the most amazing moral that is very inspirational. In the beginning of the book, Mike mentions that Danny gets cut from the team for being too short. Later on, he joins a team his dad made and keeps trying to get better no matter what. It gives the amazing morals of never giving up and to keep trying no matter how hard it gets. Therefor the book Travel Team has an amazing moral to influence all readers of young ages.
Finally, the last feature that most people recognise is that it is action packed. In the middle of the book, Dann’s team goes into a game getting beat by a lot. But, after the first quarter, the team comes back to a tie game. Then, after halftime Dann scores for the first lead of the game. Finally at the end of the game it is a one point game warriors down by one. The team gets one more shot and Danny misses it for the win. In that case most readers will believe it is

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