In the book Travel Team by Mike Lupica, the main character, Danny Walker, struggles with a conflict with the society around him. This conflict starts when Danny Walker doesn’t make the county travel team and the coaches say the reason he didn’t make it was because he was too small. Danny is frustrated by this because he knows that he was better than most of the kids trying out and he thinks that size shouldn’t matter when picking the travel team. In order to solve this problem, Danny forms a team of his own, using all the kids that got cut from the team as players. He created this team to show everyone around him, especially the coaches of the other team, that he is good enough to play basketball, no matter how small he is. In the end,