For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
How it feels
MoodBittersweet
How it reads
Character focusSingle lead
Worth knowing
Written forMiddle grade
When and where
ThemesFriendshipFamily
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