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Paul Volponi's The Final Four

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If you looked at the cover of the book or you just know what the term “Final Four” means in relation to March, you may already know that this book is about basketball. This story is realistic fiction, by Paul Volponi called “The Final Four”. The story is about two teams, the Michigan State Spartans and the underdog Troy University Trojans, which have gone through the NCAA tournament and have been matched up in one of the Final Four games in which the winner faces the winner of the North Carolina vs Duke game in the NCAA tournament championship game. The story switches off the different perspectives between the four main characters;Malcolm, Roko, Crispin, and Michael. They go back and forth and it takes you through their stories of how they

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