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The pressure is on! When you're the smallest kid playing big man's game,The challenges never stop especially when your name is danny walker .Because when you lead your travel team to a national championship may seem like a dream but not to danny walker. The day after he gets out of school for summer ,most kids would want to hang out with friends and get cooled off for the but not danney he goes off the basketball camps. But i wondering how old danny is and when he says “ You know that growth spurt you guys have been promising me my whole life? When does that kick in, exactly.
I wonder if Danny has ever played with a school team or with smaller teams or if he has ever won a championship before ,He took his to a championship … i wonder if he ever will play in the future ,With his kids . How old is danny .. Im inferring that he is in high school about 14 or 15 because most of Mike Lupica books are about a high schooler in 9 th or 10th. …show more content…
I bet he could teach his kids how to play because how good Mike lupica.
I would recommend this author to any young kids that likes sports. And any kinds that have a dream playing sports or even with a dream because danny makes any dream seem possible. Mike lupica is my favorite author because he enjoys stuff i enjoy like sports. And mike lupica has a book out there for every sport so lots of young athletes should get into reading his

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