Monday, January 25, 2010

Dragon Road

      Dragon Road, a fantatsic 285 page book by Laurence Yep is filled with basketball. Calvin and his best friend Barney are great basketball players and when hard times come to San Francisco Calvin and Barney play on the streets for money. Soon after one of Calvins street games two coaches named Jack and Topper invite Calvin and Barney to play on a traveling team. At the end of Barney and Calvins journey Jack leaves since he doesnt want to put up with the team anymore and Topper decides to run the team and have the same team for next year. The main setting in Dragon Road is Annie.
     Annie is the main setting in the book Dragon Road. Even though Annie is just a car The Dragons (name of the basketbal team) did everything in the car. The team slept, ate, and talked in Annie. They were in Annie for half of the day almost everyday and even though it was hard do squeeze all seven of them into a votes wagon they still did it. This book is recomended for anyone who likes basketball.
        

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