Although Boot Camp is fiction, there is a real JYD Basketball Boot Camp in Washington each summer. For the ninth installment of this best selling series, Eric Walters has teamed up with retired NBA star Jerome Williams and his brother Johnnie Williams III to write another exciting chapter in the lives of Nick and Kia. Only after some hard lessons and some tough losses do the three youngsters learn that it takes everyone on the team to accomplish real success. When scrimmages begin, Nick and Kia fall victim to the antics of their teammate Jamal, a talented but troubled player who tries to win games on his own. Jerome and Johnnie’s father, ‘Sergeant Push up’ to the campers, is the no nonsense camp director. This is a basketball boot camp that focuses on discipline and hard work. When Nick and Kia are invited to former Toronto Raptor Jerome ‘Junk Yard Dog’ Williams’ basketball camp in Washington, DC, they quickly discover that this is no ordinary summer hoop camp. Now Nick and Kia must find a way to make Ned a real team playerīoot Camp (With: Jerome Williams,Johnnie Williams III) Then Mark sprains his ankle and can’t play. The other three teammates figure that as long as they don’t actually have to use Ned in a game they will be fine. Ned is nuts about bugs and lives out West in a national park, three hours’ drive from the nearest basketball court. Nick cares mostly about sports and basketball is his passion. Nick and Ned, though related, are about as different as two boys born on the same day can be.

A surprise visit from Nick’s mother’s cousin brings Ned, who is exactly Nick’s age but not exactly athletic, into the picture and onto the team. Nick, Kia and Mark are the key players on the team, so the fourth, though mandatory according to the rules, doesn’t really have to be good at the game. When Nick and his pals suddenly find themselves short a man for the NBA sponsored three on three tournament they plan to enter during the summer, the answer seems simple enough. Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

Death by Exposure (With: Kevin Spreekmeester) (2004).

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