Book Review: Heat By Mike Lupica

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

The book the I am reading is called Dead And Gone, By Norah McClintock. Furthermore the book is about an 14 year old boy named Mike who's parents have died and know has to live with his foster parent John Riel. In the book Mike has to serve community service for stealing CD's. Working at the community center Mike meets a girl who's mother got murdered, And Riel knows something about the murder because he was an ex police officer. During this time, the police had found a body that mite of been Emily's mother. The main theme of the book is crime, murder, drama, adventure, and thriller.

The main character of the story fantasy league is a twelve year old boy named Charlie gaines. This book was written by mike lupica. this boy is a very caring and loving young boy. He is very intelligent. He is very observant and very quick on picking plays up.He shows and helps many people like the football coach. The coach is the nfl coach for the los angeles bulldogs.

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The author's purpose of writing the book, the big field, is to show you that you should never give up and never quite what you are trying to do. In the book a boy named hutch. Hutch was the best shortstop and was the best player on the team for many years , and then one day a boy named Darryl joined the team. He was one of the best in the state. Hutch was moved to second base and Darryl was now shortstop. He did not like to be the second best player, especially not under Darryl. Him and Darryl would always get into fights about baseball. Hutch would not just stop there and be under him.

If you love sports fiction books, especially Mike Lupica’s, you will love this one. The book I chose to write a book talk on this quarter is called The Batboy. In the book, Brian, a fourteen year old child, gets the opportunity that he has always wanted. Brian is hired to become the batboy for his favorite baseball team, the Detroit Tigers. Although Brian’s dad was in the major leagues at one point, he left Brian and his mother when Brian was eight. However, Brian got over that when he was young and the situation was not a big deal anymore. When Brian thought things could not get better, he found out that the Tigers signed his favorite player Hank Bishop with Bishop coming off of his fifty game suspension because of steroid use. While reading

Brian's winter it is a book about a kid that goes to see his dad in Canada because his parents are divorced and every summer he sees his dad on a private plane. On the the trip things go very bad. Brian was a 15 year old boy and was ready to fly to Canada to see his dad. Brian was with his mom all year and only got to see his dad in the summer . It was finally to for Brian to get on the plain and see his dad. While Brian is talking to the pilot Brian notices something weird about him , he had his hand over his chest and in pain gasping for air. Brian realized that he was having a heart attack. Before Brian could even think the pilot was dead. As plane crashes into a lake Brian swims out of the lake

The Hot House Life inside Leavenworth prison was writing in 1987-1989 by Peter Earley. Leavenworth has been one of the oldest and most dangerous maximum security facilities in the nation. The author introduces us with 6 prisoners and a couple of wardens. The book captures all the problems prisoners came across and experiences they had to go through.

The Hot Zone creates a sense of both vivdness and danger. Author Richard Preston creates an environment that draws the reader into his narrative, making us aware of the “non-fiction” aspect of the book and the consequences its contents might have on our own lives.

The genre historical fiction focuses young readers to inform them about historical and significant cultural events in history, but to do in a way that is comfortable for readers in this age group. One Crazy Summer is a good example of young adult literature of highlighting cultural/historical events and entertaining to its audience. Two characteristics that make this a great novel for middle school readers is that 1- It encourages further inquiry( historical) and 2-The situations and characters are relatable (Y/A novel).

Personally I was drawn to this book because I come from a baseball crazy family. Mother being an Angels fan, and my father being a Dodgers fan. Because I was a creation of my

17. “Black Boy” by Richard Wright is a very interesting novel about the authors struggling childhood and how he survived all the things he went through. Richard Wright suffered so much throughout his life but mostly during his childhood. His father left when he was very young so his mother had to work all day to support them. Even though his mother worked two jobs she still did not have enough money to support Richard and his brother so they would starve when she was out working. When Richard got older his mother got ill and he had to take on more responsibilities around the house and find a way to make money. He got plenty of jobs but he could never maintain them because of

At these points it is more up to the reader to imagine what the settings looked like instead of the author just stating what the places looked like. An example of this is when the author says Dally was waiting for Johnny and me under the street light at the corner of Pickett and Sutton.” Here the author says that there is a street light in a corner, this has some description, but it is up to the reader to figure out what the rest of the place looks like. The reader has to figure out whether there is a brick sidewalk or a cement one, this is good because then it will be more fun for the reader and it will keep them more entertained. The book also has really specific descriptions, such as this one, “One time there was a very specific description of the setting was when the author was describing the park. “The park was about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily. Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our vacant lot, and the Shepherd outfit liked the alleys down by the tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little kids.” In this quote it shows how big the park is, that there is a pool and a fountain. The quote also says that the

In a country where Divorce is more normalized than ever before, one can be guilty of neglecting to consider the pain it can cause, not just the couple, but also their children. The short story “Hot or Cold” by Maile Meloy is a remembrance from the author's life which communicates the divorce of her parents represented in a nostalgic memory from her past. In the piece, the author’s young self plays in a van while her parents deal with an unexpected encounter with a bear. After a brief chase, the parents escape and the family drives away. The author masterfully develops the story by hinting at the nature of the parents relationship by adding clever metaphors, until it is apparent that the parents eventually divorce and that the story is only a dream. In the short story, the author utilizes juxtaposition, a motif, and metaphors, to suggest that memories create narratives, true or otherwise, that help one comprehend events that are otherwise incomprehensible.

This summer I’ve read the book Heat by Mike Lupica. This baseball themed book is a out of the park excitement. It’s about a 12 year old cuban boy named Michael who is newly orphaned but loves to throw killer heat. But everything goes downhill when Michael can't prove his age by a lost birth certificate and gets kicked off the team. Michael tries to do his best by supporting the team by the sidelines. It gets worst, since his brother Carlos is only 17, they have to stay in the shadows so they don't get separated into foster homes.