Taking Sides by Gary Soto

         I read a book called Taking Sides by Gary Soto.   It is about a Mexican named Lincon that had played basket ball and became a star and his friends played basket ball with him so he can remain a star after school him and his friends played basket ball. And his nighborhood had a gang on their block where their lived and his nighborhood had start to have volence and his friends wanted to stay in touch with Lincoln because he was going to move to another nighborhood. And Lincoln friend named Tony talked about his ex-girl friend Vicky. And Lincoln new friend named Mendoza works on how to become a star that is Lincoln teammate. Lincoln thinks he is Magic Johnson in comlumbus Junor high School thats when Lincoln started to talk trash because he is a star player. And his teamates tryed to be like him. And Lincoln likes his old team but he just shooting hoops for another team he don't like to see his old team lose basket ball games without him.