Cover of Travel Team

Travel Team

Part of the Danny Walker series

The #1 Bestseller!

Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court — but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn't the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player and a bunch of never-say-die kids prove that the heart simply cannot be measured.

Read more

For fans of The Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, the Mighty Ducks, and Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestselling novels Heat, The Underdogs, and Million-Dollar Throw, here is a book that proves that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.

Genre
literary fictionadventurecoming of age
Themes
sportsfriendshipfathers
Setting
2000s
Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade
Length
medium · 304 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Travel Team? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Travel Team. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Box Out Shares sports, young adult, basketball
  2. Football Genius Shares sports, young adult, realistic fiction
  3. The Million Dollar Shot Shares sports, realistic fiction, young adult
  4. Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer Shares sports, basketball, realistic fiction

“People who read Travel Team tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
  2. The Boy Who Saved Baseball
  3. Kickoff!
  4. Free Baseball

“If you want more of the same (literary fiction about sports), start with these.”

  1. Baseball Genius
  2. The Pitcher
  3. Baseball Great
  4. Heart of a Champion

“If it was the sports that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Foul Trouble
  2. Out of Reach
  3. Next
  4. The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Natural Born Hustler
  2. Going the Distance
  3. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
  4. Boy21