Beloved, award-winning author Carl Deuker serves up another fast-paced sports novelāthis one about basketball and friendship.
Nate plays soccer, but he doesnāt love it. He plays because itās what his family expects.
Then Lucas Cawley moves in across the street. Lucas isnāt like any of Nateās sports friendsāheās poor, his parents are mostly absent, and heās devoted to his sister, Megan, who has a learning disability. Lucas may be an outcast at school, but he and Nate find common ground in their fierce games of one-on-one basketball.
Itās not long before Nate realizes that basketball is his sport. But Nate has an ax to grind with star players Colin and Bo, who have disrespected him for years. Nate believes that outplaying those two is the most important thing . . . until he learns that life is about more than getting ready for the next game.