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Brief Summary Of True Legend By Drew Robinson

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In the book True Legend, Drew Robinson is a nationally ranked basketball player who needs to prove to not just the world but this old man that he is real and not hype. I chose to read this book because it sounded like a good book when I read the summary. I also chose to read it because it was about basketball and I thought this book would be interesting because basketball is my favorite sport. True Legend has an intense plot, exciting and interesting chapters, and well-used flashbacks. In this book, Drew Robinson is a very talented 16 year old basketball prospect who gets so much media attention. He and his mom moved from New York to California because his mom got a new job with a rich man named Seth Gilbert who changed their lives around. Seth had them …show more content…

It was as if he was a professional basketball player. Drew was shocked at how skilled this man was. Drew went up to try and talk to him but the old man ran away. Drew then told Lee about the man and they both tried to find out who he was. Drew found on the internet that there was a man who was a really good basketball prospect who ruined his career by making bad mistakes. He was said to have died in a hotel that had caught on fire. Drew told his coach, Coach and his coach heard about the man and knew who his old coach. Drews coach gave him the address to the mans old coach and Drew and Lee went to his house. When they got there, Drew asked so many questions about the man but got nothing out of the mans old coach. After one of Drews games, Drew spotted the old man from the park in the stands watching him play. After the game was over, Drew spotted the old man leaving the building and started to follow the old man. Drew followed him all the way to his hotel building but did not know what room he was until he finally got the mans room number from a worker who was outside the

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