In the book Heat by Mike Lupica, it is a story of a young boy from Bronx, New York. This young boy`s name is Michael Arroyo, he is a 12 year old baseball player who is great at what he does (playing baseball), Michael is from Cuba and has a brother named Carlos. Michael`s dad died and has no real parents to care for him and his brother, but Michael overall is a nice, young, smart kid and is very well known and nice to the people throughout the Bronx community. Since Michael has great athleticism and skills in the game of baseball, he is the best player on his team and one day wishes to make it to the Little League World Series, but with his skills at his age it creates a large conflict that lasts long throughout the story.
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Michael created the conflict of this selection, Michael and his team made it to the Little League World Series and some of the coaches could not figure out the age of Michael because of his great skills in the game of baseball as he throws 85 miles per hour. Since the coaches could not figure out the age of Michael, they mad him present his birth certificate, but since Michael`s parents were both dead he would not be able to get his birth certificate from Cuba. This would then make him ineligible to compete and finish the tournament.
A LOT of people have said good things about this book and it sounds very interesting, so, even though I know pretty much NOTHING about sports, I might actually read this. Really great blog- it was easy to follow, to the point, and well written. It's would be kinda terrible if he got kicked out of the tournament just because of a sheet of paper...
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ReplyDeleteErik this was a great summary of the character! It was very thoguht out and you gave me enough information to get hooked on the book, but not enough to know what is going to happen.
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ReplyDeleteAmazing summary of this book! I knew exactly what was going on and who the main characters are. I have read many books by Mike Lupica also.
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ReplyDeletewas a good description of the book of Heat i like how u used characters in the book to describe the main idea of Heat
ReplyDeleteyou made a great description of the book. it makes me consider reading this book. it sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteWhat was Michael's main threat in the tournament and why?
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