Novel

Title; Last Minute
Type; Novel
Author; David Hill

Last Minute is about a young mix gender teenage group of students/basketballers who struggles to find success against an incredible basketball school team named Western Heights. This is also about the students who couldn't believe in themselves after a huge loss the previous season from the same school. So throughout the novel the group of basketballers go through both bad and good times among-st themselves to improve on their skills.

A challenge a character faced in this text was Zac. The character handled it by trying to cope with the team because he keeps getting put off by them when they tell him to change his ripped pair of sports shoes. A day after that he then gets a new pair of runners before the first game against Western Heights, an evidence towards Zac having to deal with the team before he gets new shoes is when Brittany says to him "You've got the problem. Why don't you fix those stupid runners? Buy a new pair!". This helps me understand that Brittany and Zac don't get along that well also they have a lot on their mind about each other such as calling each other names but as he gets new pairs Brittany then come's to a point where she doesn't call him names because of the new pairs he bought so she takes him for granted.

One idea in this novel was the friendship the team had throughout the year this is because at first they did not believe in themselves for a long time after they had challenged a strong school but during the training's the previous weeks and year they had  all come together and train new moves for the game. An example of friendship is "You're my team, we're a team and always a team" this means that through bad or good times friends or team mates they'll always stick by each other. What i learnt from the teams friendship is that even though you give each other so much hate in school there's a lot going on in the sport team where you have to put yourself on the line and do whats best for each other not for yourself because if your alone you wont achieve the goal but when you have friends we can achieve so much things in life.

Overall throughout the novel the team mates are glad that they have given all their best to the opposition but win or lose they can always build up their confidence towards the other schools in the tournament. One team mate down all the team mates are down, when one team mate stands up for themselves the rest will stand right beside them.