![]() ![]() Loaded with action-packed, suspenseful basketball sequences, crisp dialogue, sharply drawn characters, and keen insight into contemporary basketball culture in America, Drew’s story illuminates the realities and choices facing gifted young athletes.” - School Library Journal “Lupica scores another winner with this cautionary tale. Lupica is the greatest sportswriter for middle-grade readers, and this book, True Legend, is a reminder of his dominance."*** - VOYA, starred review ![]() ***"The perfect trifecta of deep knowledge and portrayal of the history and culture of basketball, keen insight into the obstacle course of motivations and temptations facing a talented young man, and perfect-pitch sports writing. In this age of street agents promising riches to kids barely out of elementary school and college programs being taken down because of recruiting violations, True Legend is a resonant and inspiring novel in the Lupica tradition. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Alexie Sherman. That is, until a washed-up former playground legend steps back onto the court and takes True under his wing. It's the kind that comes along once in a generation and is loaded with perks-and with problems.īefore long, True buys in to his own hype, much to the chagrin of his mother, who wants to keep her boy's head grounded-and suddenly trouble has a way of finding him. Before very long, True buys in to his personal hype, significantly to the chgrin of his mother, who desires to keep her young boys head grounded-and instantly trouble has a method of. TRUE LEGEND MIKE LUPICIA PDF EDITOR FREETrue is the best player in Southern California, but in the championship against Drew's school rivals, True doesn't shine like he normally does. True Legend Mike Lupicia Editor Free Structure 7 Its the kind that arrives along once in a generation and is usually packed with perks-and with troubles. There's a reason teammates call him "True." Because for basketball phenom Drew Robinson, there is nothing more true than his talent on the court. True Legend by Mike Lupica is about a high school kid named Drew Robinson and how talented he is on the court, that is why everybody calls him 'True Robinson'. Then off the dribble came the spin moves and shots, the guy working the outside, draining shots that would have been three-pointers easy if there had been a three-point line on this old used-up court instead of just potholes and weeds.Īnd the guy-ghost hardly ever missed, even though there were these moves he made, ones that started with his back to the basket, moves like a blur that should have made it impossible for him to pick up where the rim was when he came out of them.#1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica makes his return to the basketball court! He was making it look easy, like he wasn't even paying attention, like he could've been doing something else at the same time, checking his phone or texting on it. High dribbles to low, both hands - Drew wasn't even sure at first whether he was righty or lefty - behind his back, through his legs. ![]() Only tonight he was sharing the place with this ghost player, the ghost doing things on this bad court that made Drew think he was in some kind of dream.ĭribbling the ball like a Harlem Globetrotter, like Curly Neal, who Drew had met at Madison Square Garden one time, like the ball was on some kind of string. Morrison gave him that feeling when he had the place to himself. Still, Drew knew what Shamel was saying to him.īasketball had always filled him up, too. TRUE LEGEND MIKE LUPICIA PDF EDITOR PROFESSIONALHis mom had always been a professional woman her last job in New York was working as a secretary at a real-estate company in Forest Hills. "You know what I mean?"ĭrew had never gone hungry. "Playing ball just fills me up in another way," Shamel said. He could come here when Morrison had emptied out and remember, every single time, why he'd loved playing ball so much in the first place.īefore it became a ticket to dreams he didn't even know he had.Ī basketball friend of his from New York, from 182nd and Crotona in the Bronx, Shamel Williams, a boy with no parents and no money, barely getting by on his grandma's welfare check, had told Drew once that the best thing about basketball, the thing he loved about it the most, was that it could even make him forget he was hungry sometimes. Quiet town, at least as far as he was concerned, with this quiet playground in it. ![]() Truth was, he played more like Steph Curry, and looked like him even more.ĭrew (True) Robinson and his mom lived here in Agoura Hills, just over the line from Westlake Village, where his school - Oakley Academy - was. ![]()
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