{"product_id":"miracle-on-49th-street","title":"Miracle on 49th Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lupica, Mike\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Random House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sky\/Pale blue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 04-10-2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142409428\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJosh Cameron is MVP of the championship Boston Celtics and a media darling with a spotless reputation. He has it all . . . including a daughter he never knew. When twelve-year-old Molly Parker arrives in his life, claiming to be his daughter, she catches him off guard. Molly says her mom, Jen, revealed his identity before losing her battle with cancer. Josh isn't so sure about this girl—she must be trying to scam him for his money. Still, there's something about Molly that reminds him so much of Jen. But as Molly gets to know the real Josh, the one the camera never sees, she starts to understand why her mother never wanted her to know her dad. Josh has room in his heart for only two things: basketball and himself. Does Molly really want this man for a father? Together, these two strangers learn that sometimes, for things to end up the way you want them to, you have to fire up a prayer at the buzzer and hope it goes in.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nLupica delivers a winning novel, creating a realistic character in Molly by authentically capturing both her fragility and pluck. (Booklist)\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nMike Lupica is the author of multiple bestselling books for young readers, including\u003cbr\u003e\nQB 1,\u003cbr\u003e\nHeat, Travel Team, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Underdogs. He has carved out a niche as the sporting world’s finest storyteller. Mike lives in Connecticut with his wife and their four children. When not writing novels,\u003cbr\u003e\nMike Lupica writes for New York's\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily News, appears on ESPN's\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Sports Reporters and hosts\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Mike Lupica Show on ESPN Radio. You can visit Mike Lupica at mikelupicabooks.com\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\nChapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nMolly Parker wasn’t here for some stupid autograph. She wasn’t even here for the open practice the Celtics had run today, their last practice before they would begin the regular season tomorrow night against the 76ers.Though she had to admit that it was pretty cool to sit with the other kids and their parents inside the Celtics’ practice gym at the Sports Authority Training Center at HealthPoint, which didn’t so much sound like the name of a basketball court but the answer to some kind of essay question.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Celtics had scheduled their annual Kids Day practice at four o’clock so that the parents—moms mostly, Molly noticed that right off—could pick up their kids at school or at the bus and get them here on time. Molly, who’d gotten out here to Waltham early, had watched a lot of them pull up to the entrance to the big public parking lot on the side, feeling as if she were watching some kind of parade for SUVs.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nYuppie limos, her mom liked to call them.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nOf course, then her mom would wonder if anybody in America even used the word yuppie anymore, or if there was some kind of new description for all the moms driving Suburbans and Land Cruisers and Explorers.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“Pretty soon there’ll be double-decker versions of these monsters,” Jennifer Parker would say to Molly. “Like our red London buses.”\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nWhen they had finally come back for good from London, the only place Molly had ever thought of as home, her mom had acted as if everything was new to her, as if the country she’d grown up in had now become foreign, just because she’d been away for over twelve years.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nOne day when they were driving on the Mass Pike, Jennifer Parker—Jen to her friends—had found herself in the middle lane, with big SUVs on both sides of their rented Taurus.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“Okay,” her mom said, “that’s it. I know we’ve only been back a few weeks, but they’re going to need to build a bigger country.”\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“Mom,” Molly said that day, “you’re going to have to let go on the whole car thing.”\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nHer mom grinned then, because she was the coolest and always got the joke.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“Did I ever by any chance mention the Volkswagen bug I used to drive around in college?”\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nAnd Molly had said, “Oh, no, Mom. 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