Night Hoops Book Report

Patrick was the one who helped Charlie slowly start to make new friends, and was the one to label him as a wallflower and accept that status. While Patrick tries to help Charlie figure out himself, Sam, who is stressing about school and suffering through the memories of her past, and his secret boyfriend Brad, who refuses to come out, he doesn't seem to know how to take care of himself. Patrick truly loves Brad, but Brad doesn't want anyone to know afraid of what people will think of a gay football player and scared of what his dad will do if he found out. There was night were Brad and Patrick were caught tho and after that Brad didn't talk to Patrick again and tried to beat him up. After these events Patrick turned to drugs, alcohol and anonymous sex to try and numb his pain until he can go away to college.

In the book Bad Boy Brawly Brown, one of the main characters names is Easy. Easy is someone who’s in his late twenty’s he lives a tough lifestyle which has made him even more powerful. This character has seen a lot throughout his childhood which is why he became a street boy making the wrong decisions hanging around the wrong crowd of people because that’s all he ever saw growing up in the streets with his older friends until things went left for Easy. The world views Easy as a powerful person but yet he’s known to be dangerous

Quincy found that he only did basketball because his father played and continued playing to be a better basketball player than his father, but decided he was ready to take a new career path. Monica attempted to leave basketball, because she no longer felt joy playing it. However, she did go back to playing professional basketball. Frida stopped aiming for a career within painting when she married Diego, but later in life that must have changed because she ended up with her first art gallery. Family and the relationships between sisters appears in both films.

He always chooses to not let these actions such as harsh words or jokes or him being beaten physically keep him down. He starts to use humor as a survival tactic, he often describes the people trying to hurt him in a sarcastic fliptoned manner. Even when it comes to one of the things most important to him, basketball. During Juniors first game playing his old school on his new team the Wellpinit supporters turn their backs on Junior and the Reardan team, Junior comments sarcastically saying , "If these dang Indians had been this organized when I went to

He was expected to act like an adult though he was still considered a child. Inside, Holden was struggling with the conflict of reluctance to become and adult because he thought it meant leaving behind his brother. He was pushing aside the fact that people change, and that change was not always a bad thing. On July 18, 1946 Holden’s brother Allie died of leukemia, and he never got over it.

Dating back all the way to 1860, this club has grown into more. In the small city of Hartford, Conneticut, there was a group of boys that lead shabby lives on the streets. With no one to go to, they wandered, bullying and taking out anger on others, trying to act cool. But with every man comes a small part of little boy in them. This is how Elizabeth Hammersly and her sisters got to the kids, knowing that their life was not a good one.

Then in 90’s Michael Jordan has showed the best basketball in the NBA’s history. As entering the new millennium, the league’s change in style showed up and downs but Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, and Vince Carter brought a new definition to the game. These key players contain their own individual styles, but different generations in NBA had its own shooting,

This commitment to whatever I put my mind to is what makes me who am. I know that however good I am at something, whether it be a subject, sport, my job or club, that I can always do better. I love to be pushed, to go beyond what I ever thought I could achieve, to become better than I ever thought possible. I truly love playing basketball, I love the rush of accomplishing a goal I set for myself, for finally making 8 for 10 free throws after failing for so long. Basketball is not just a sport, but a metaphor for how I want to live my life.

The character Brother starts the story out by going back to when his sibling was born. The younger brother Doodle is disabled, the doctor thought he wouldn't survive but he did. Overtime Brother became embarrassed that Doodle couldn't walk. He let his pride get the better of him and made it his mission to make Doodle walk. Eventually Doodle did learn to walk, but Brother was still not satisfied, he wanted his brother to be able to run and swim like all the other kids.

Due to this people form all around the world play basketball professionally and for leisure. Basketball is the best sport because playing basketball has a lot of benefits for your health, it is a lot of fun to play as well as watch and it requires a lot of skill. These

In the documentary during the Championship, Akron Shooting Stars vs. the California All Stars in eighth grade Little Dru was about 4’6 and short. People would pick on him because he was shorter than others. However, he learned that you don 't have to be the same as other people do the same as them. When people would pick on him and call him names, it wouldn’t bother him because he knew that they were just trying to make him feel bad and then it would make him depressed or upset at the game, yet Little Dru did not let it bother him. LeBron James and the players learned a lot of lessons during their basketball career.

Steven loves to work out and play basketball. He’s a very big fan of the Knicks and, Carmelo Anthony. Steven played at the JV Basketball team for Truman but because his grades were not good they took him off the team. The position he played was point guard and, shooting guard. Every summer Ada use to send Steven to Dominican Republic to spend the summer with his grandparents.

2) Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pies by Jordan Sonnelblick is a unique, heart melting, and a humorous book. At first I thought this book would be about an average boy and his “struggles”, but the more I read I discovered a heartwarming story with unique characters that’s well written. The story is about a boy that has a younger brother with cancer, while his parents are busy working or taking care of their younger brother they fail to see the problems and daily challenges that the older brother is facing. The story’s has unique characters that bring life to the story. For example, Steven is the protagonist, his jokes can cheer anybody up, and he’s well known as Pes (a nickname his friends gave him, short for Peasant), and he even shaved his

August 28, the day Kyle Morin would finally be someone in. The location of this dramatic transformation… Jeffery Johnson Academy, school of the jaguars. Let us rewind, Kyle Morin was a transfer student from Indiana. He came to Bolingbroke almost a year ago. He had struggled to make friends and was the stereotypical new kid.

In the biography “ Dracula Prince Of Many Faces-His Life And TImes,” by Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally, the authors try to piece together a mysterious time period in Transylvanian history and analyze who “Dracula,” also known as “Vlad The Impaler,” truly was in his life and what atrocities he committed. One of the most interesting facts that can be drawn from the book is dracula’s second most preferred torture method, trap doors, “which he used to drop wretches cunningly on the stakes below”[Florescu, McNally, 105]. Along with intricate artwork that was included in the book, the authors used; his personality, the state of his current realm, and even went as far as to provide accounts of the intricate methods of torture, my personal