Travel Team
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Travel Team is a young adult novel by columnist Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Michael Lupica is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN.-Biography:...

 about a boy who is cut from his travel basketball team, so his father responds by forming a new travel team made up of players who were cut or didn't try out. The novel was a children's chapter book
Chapter book
A chapter book is a story book intended for intermediate readers, generally age 7-10. Unlike picture books for younger readers, a chapter book tells the story primarily through prose, rather than pictures. Unlike books for older readers, chapter books contain plentiful illustrations...

New York Times best seller for 3 months, and was based in part on Lupica's experience when his son was cut from a basketball team.
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