Mike Lupica Titles

HEAT

Michael Arroyo grows up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, a boy forever on the outside looking in. His only chance to see his field of dreams? Pitch his Bronx all-star team to the district finals and a shot at the Little League World Series. 
    But there is a problem. Michael is good -- too good. Rival coaches and players can't believe a boy could be this good and be only twelve years old. And Michael has no way to prove it- no mother, no father, and a birth certificate that is stuck home in his native Cuba. If the people from social services find out his secret, he will have an even worse problem: being separated form the only family he knows, his older brother Carlos. 
    Baseball can be a game of heroes, of champions who refuse to lose. Or it can be a field of crushed dreams. For one boy, the game is about to turn serious.
 
 Pages 220   paperback         RL 5       ages 10+     $7.99

Travel Team

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 team Danny's dad 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.

Paperback   pages 274        RL 5      ages 10+  

Miracle On 49th Street

Josh Cameron is MVP of the championship Boston Celtics and a media darling with a spotless reputation.  He has it all . . . including a daughter he never knew.  When twelve-year-old Molly Parker arrives in his life, claiming to be his daughter, she catches him off guard.  Molly says her mom, Jen, revealed his identity before losing her battle with cancer.  But as Molly gets to know the real Josh, they one the camera never sees, she starts to understand why her mother never wanted her to know her dad.  Josh has room in his heart for only two things:  basketball and himself.  Together, these two strangers learn that sometimes, for things to end up the way you want them to, you have to fire up a prayer at the buzzer and hope it goes in.

Pages 246    paperback         RL 5       ages 10+