https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend Padlet By Luke Bennett en-us 2017-10-26 17:36:06 UTC 2017-11-07 18:47:46 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.tatteredcover.com/sites/tatteredcover.com/files/9780399252273.jpg ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200949971 2017-10-26 17:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200949971 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951013  "Your Coaches good luck is in result of my design"]]> 2017-10-26 17:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951013 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951249 Drew being a great basketball player is taking credit for his coaches fortune and success.]]> 2017-10-26 17:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951249 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951441 Gr 8 Up — Lupica scores another winner with this cautionary tale of Drew "True " Robinson, a high school junior basketball phenom who almost gets lost in the perks and fame that come his way . When Oakley Academy owner Seth Gilbert witnesses Drew's passing and shooting talents, he moves the teen and his mother from New York to California, enrolls him at Oakley, gives Drew's mother a job, and takes charge of Drew's life. The teen readily accepts the computer, chauffeur, and comforts that Gilbert provides. But his starstruck self-perception is shaken when he befriends a mysterious "playground legend ," who ultimately explains his own fall from grace. Drew begins to see the consequences of his self-absorbed life: opting for unsuccessful, show-stopping shots instead of passing to an open teammate, flaunting his skills and alienating a girl he likes, letting others help with his schoolwork, and allowing a devoted friend and teammate take the blame when he wrecks the owner's Maserati. In an emotional confrontation with Mr. Gilbert, Drew announces that he will start thinking for himself, making decisions based on his own values of honesty, compassion, and fairness. Loaded with action-packed, suspenseful basketball sequences, crisp dialogue, sharply drawn characters, and keen insight into contemporary basketball culture  in America, Drew's story illuminates the realities and choices facing gifted young athletes. Although Drew's talent is basketball, teens will discover in him a universal adolescent need for acceptance, friendship, independence, and self-respect.—Gerry Larson, formerly at Durham School of the Arts, NC --Gerry Larson (Reviewed February 1 , 2013) (School Library Journal, vol 59, issue 2, p108)]]> 2017-10-26 17:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951441 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951886 I think that the book review has a good theme like if you work at something for a long time then you should not give up like how Drew gave us basketball which he was very good at when him and his family moved from New York to California]]> 2017-10-26 17:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200951886 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957334 " You mean a big star who's bought into his own hype." "Nope not me."]]> 2017-10-26 17:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957334 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957413 Drew's coach picked at him because He is a cocky kid and he knows he is but he said "Nope not me" so I thought It was funny and was pretty important.       ]]> 2017-10-26 17:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957413 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957602 How Mike Lupica added the ghost basketball play from Drew's old town in New York]]> 2017-10-26 17:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957602 ben06010 https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957857 The Ghost was added to remind Drew of the good old times of playing basketball in New York and it was supposed to persuade him to continue to play basketball in California]]> 2017-10-26 17:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ben06010/TrueLegend/wish/200957857