A work of fiction that I read for pleasure and found to be very inspiring and influential to me is Summer Ball, by Mike Lupica. This book is the story of a young kid, Danny Walker, who loves basketball more than anything else in the world. Danny had recently led his travel basketball team to the national championship and now is spending his summer at Right Way Basketball camp in Portland, Maine. While there, Danny plays with the best players in the world from his age group, but he is different from everyone else as he is the smallest. In basketball, height is a huge advantage, and therefore, Danny is at an extreme disadvantage. The story goes through Danny’s struggles while at camp and shows the reader how he gets up after he gets knocked down,
