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Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael's only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. With no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, Michael's secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources.

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Michael Arroyo's lightning fastball makes him the envy of all his teammates, but this speedy southpaw labors under a secret that allows him no rest. Softspoken 12-year-old Cuban refugee Mike worries that he and his 17-year-old brother, Carlos, stand in danger of being separated, even deported. Mike Lupica's middle school novel touches all the bases: suspense, excitement, convincing characterization.
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As readers go, Andino seems to have it all, as heard in his sharp performance of Lupica's (Traveling Team) latest baseball tale. The story centers on two Cuban brothers living in New York and trying to avoid being sent to foster care, or even back to Cuba, after their father dies. Michael Arroyo is the star of his Bronx Little League team, but he is benched when he is accused of being older than 12. With no father to help and his birth certificate lost in Cuba, Michael is at a loss for what to do. It doesn't help that both boys have inadvertently drawn the attention of the police (Michael for helping apprehend a crook, and his older brother Carlos for working for him). Andino has his work cut out for him: Dominican, Cuban, old, young, male, female he is totally convincing as every character. Particularly fun is the thespian uncle Timo of Michael's friend Manny; the boys talk Timo into playing "Papi" when they are visited by the officials. His transformation from surfer-dude to middle-aged Cuban refugee is as enjoyable as it is impressive. Ages 10-up. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Heat is a well paced, steadily building novel that examines baseball, cultural identity, first love, and adulthood. When their father dies, Michael and his older brother are forced to fend for themselves. But should anyone find out their secret, they will be split up or worse…sent back to Cuba, spoiling Mike's chances of playing in the Little League World Series. This coming of age tale uses the America's past-time as backdrop for exploring multiple adolescent themes. The fairy-tale ending borders on the unbelievable, but overall the work is a terrific read for those looking for a dose of childhood baseball nostalgia.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780142407578
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/1/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 31,468
  • Age range: 9 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 0940L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica lives in Connecticut.

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Chapter one

Mrs. Cora walked slowly up River Avenue in the summer heat, secure within the boundaries of her world. The great ballpark, Yankee Stadium, was on her right. The blue subway tracks were above her, the tracks colliding up there with the roar of the train as it pulled into the station across the street from the Stadium, at 161st Street and River. The two constants in my life, Mrs. Cora thought: baseball and the thump thump thump of another train, like my own personal rap music.

She had her green purse over her arm, the one that was supposed to look more expensive than it really was, the one the boys upstairs had bought for her birthday. Inside the purse, in the bank envelope, was the one hundred dollars-Quik Cash they called it-she had just gotten from Bank of New York ATM machine. Her food money. But she was suddenly too tired to go back to the Imperial Market. Mrs. C, as the kids in her building called her, was preparing for what could feel like the toughest part of her whole day, the walk back up the hill to 825 Gerard from the Stadium.

Now she moved past all the stores selling Yankee merchandise-Stan's Sports World, Stan the Man's Kids and Ladies, Stan the Man's Baseball World-wondering as she did sometimes if there was some famous Yankee who had been named Stan.

He hit her from behind.

She was in front of Stan's Bar and Restaurant, suddenly falling to her right, onto the sidewalk in front of the window as she felt the green purse being pulled from her arm, as if whoever it was didn't care if he took Mrs. Cora's arm with it.

Mrs. Cora hit the ground hard, rolled on her side, feeling dizzy, but turning herself to watch this . . . what? This boy not much bigger than some of the boys at 825 Gerard? Watched him sprint down River Avenue as if faster than the train that was right over her head this very minute, pulling into the elevated Yankee Stadium stop.

Mrs. Cora tried to make herself heard over the roar of the 4 train.

"Stop," Mrs. Cora said.

Then, as loud as she could manage: "Stop thief!"

There were people reaching down to help her now, neighborhood people she was sure, voices asking if she was all right, if anything was broken.

All Mrs. Cora could do was point toward 161st Street.

"My food money," she said, her voice cracking.

Then a man's voice above her was yelling, "Police!"

Mrs. Cora looked past the crowd starting to form around her, saw a policeman come down the steps from the subway platform, saw him look right at her, and then the flash of the boy making a left around what she knew was the far outfield part of the Stadium.

The policeman started running, too.

The thief's name was Ramon.

He was not the smartest sixteen-year-old in the South Bronx. Not even close to being the smartest, mostly because he had always treated school like some sort of hobby. He was not the laziest, either, this he knew, because there were boys his age who spent much more time on the streetcorner and sitting on the stoop than he did. But he was lazy enough, and hated the idea of work even more than he hated the idea of school, which is why he preferred to occasionally get his spending money stealing purses and handbags like the Hulk-green one he had in his hand right now.

As far as Ramon could tell at this point in his life, the only real job skill he had was this: He was fast.

He had been a young soccer star of the neighborhood in his early teens, just across the way on the fields of Joseph Yancy park, those fields a blur to him right now as he ran on the sidewalk at the back end of Yankee Stadium, on his way to the cobblestones of Ruppert Place, which ran down toward home plate.

"Stop! Police!" Ramon heard from behind him.

He looked around, saw the fat cop starting to chase him, wobbling like a car with a flat tire.

Fat chance, Ramon thought.

Ramon's plan was simple: He would cut across Ruppert Place and run down the hill to Macombs Dam Park, across the basketball courts there, then across the green expanse of outfield that the two ballfields shared there. Then he would hop the fence at the far end of Macombs Dam Park and run underneath the overpass for the exit from the Deegan Expressway, one of the Stadium exits.

And then Ramon would be gone, working his way back toward the neighborhoods to the north, with all their signs pointing toward the George Washington Bridge, finding a quiet place to count his profits and decide which girl he would spend them on tonight. "Stop . . . I mean it!" the fat cop yelled.

Ramon looked over his shoulder, saw that the cop was already falling behind, trying to chase and yell and speak into the walkie-talkie he had in his right hand all at once. It made Ramon want to laugh his head off, even as he ran. No cop had ever caught him and no cop ever would, unless they had begun recruiting Olympic sprinters for the New York Police Department. He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about. Juan something?

No, no.

Juantarena.

Alberto Juantarena.

His father said it was like watching a god run. And his father, the old fool, wasn't even Cuban, he was Dominican. The only Dominican who wanted to talk about track stars instead of baseball.

Whatever.

Ramon ran now, across the green grass of Macombs Dam Park, where boys played catch in the July morning, ran toward the fence underneath the overpass.

It wasn't even noon yet, Ramon thought, and I've already earned a whole day's pay. He felt the sharp pain in the back of his head in that moment, like a rock hitting him back there.

Then Ramon went down like somebody had tackled him from behind.

What the . . . ?

Ramon, who wasn't much of a thinker, tried to think what had just happened to him, but his head hurt too much.

Then he went out.

When the thief opened his eyes, his hands were already cuffed in front of him. The fat policeman stood with a skinny boy, a tall, skinny boy with long arms and long fingers attached to them, wearing a Yankee T-shirt, a baseball glove under his arm.

"What's your name, kid?"

The one on the ground said, "Ramon," thinking the policeman was talking to him.

The cop looked down, as if he'd forgotten Ramon was there. "Wasn't talking to you."

"Michael," the skinny boy said. "Michael Arroyo."

"And you're telling me you got him with this from home plate?"

The cop held up a baseball that looked older than the old Stadium that rose behind them to the sky.

"Got lucky, I guess," Michael said.

The cop smiled, rolling the ball around in his hand.

"You lefty or righty?"

Now Michael smiled and held up his left hand, like he was a boy with the right answer in class.

"Home plate to dead center?" the cop said.

Michael nodded, like now the cop had come up with the right answer.

"You got some arm, kid," the cop said.

"That's what they tell me," Michael said.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2011

    Award winning

    Best book ever,read miracle on 49 street

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  • Posted November 20, 2009

    i liked it because......................

    Heat by mike lupica is an inspiring realistic fiction book. Heat is a great book. What makes heat a great book is that its exiting Heat made me feel like I was in the book on the way they worded it. Heat takes place at first in Cuba. Heat later on in the story takes place in the United States.
    In Heat Mick is a 12 year old boy who dreams of playing little league and going to the MLB. On this journey both his parents died and had to live with his 2 older brothers. Therefore while going and living in America, Mick and his brother have to avoid questions and not get caught. If they got cough social service would have to put them in a foster home. Mike tries his best to follow his goal. He goes to a lot of trouble to get past the umpires and teams who have a position to throw him off the team. This is because Mick has no proof of his age in only kind. He also finds his way around social services. This allows him to follow his goal and dream.
    Heat is told nicely by Mick. It is told nicely because he goes from scene to scene without confusing you. It also makes it like you where right in the book along side him. If you like to read a thrilling and exiting story, read Heat. Also if you've read Holes and liked it you might want to read Heat.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 30, 2008

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    Heat by Mike Lupica is a fiction book, but you¿ll never know with all the action, suspense, and home runs! I enjoyed Heat because it¿s a sports book, but even more because it goes beyond other fiction books by putting in real life events that people everyday go through.
    Heat takes place in the Big Apple, New York City in the year 2007. The main character Michael Arroyo has many conflicts throughout the story which involved him trying to always have food to eat, where his father is, and taking his little league baseball team to the World Series. Mike tries to get a job in the story to try to help him and his brother have more money for food, so he is thinking wisely about the situation. He also meets a girl in the park and she happens to know about Michael¿s father. Michael also had a game where his whole team was struggling and if they lost they were eliminated, so he had to buckle down and pitch incredible as he did that game.
    The author writes this story from the author¿s point of view and makes a lot of the people talk with ¿New York¿ accents. He also writes a lot of descriptive words to describe a lot of little things in the story. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that enjoys action and suspense and maybe a little fast action baseball! Anyone who enjoys literature would spend hours reading this book to find out how it all will end.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 7, 2008

    Bringing the 'Heat'

    The book 'Heat,' written by Mike Lupica, is a phenomenal book that alternates between baseball action and some of life's hardships. The main character of the book is 12 year old, Michael Arroyo. He is an amazing baseball player who can pitch at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour. He plays for the South Bronx All-Stars, a team that he has helped get to the Little League World Series. A rival coach questions his age and forces him to show a birth certificate. Since he, his father, and his brother fled Cuba at an early age, he was not able to get a birth certificate. The certificate was still in Cuba. The shocking death of Michael's father occurs, leaving the Arroyo boys hiding from authorities. His older brother Carlos then becomes a father figure in his life, helping him reach his goals of winning the Little League World Series. Manny, his friend and teammate, is very supportive to his situation. As well as his neighbor Mrs. Cora. His best friend in the book is Ellie, who is the daughter of the New York Yankee's star pitcher, el Grande. Both el Grande and Ellie help him by getting his birth certificate from Cuba, making him eligible to play in the Little League World Series. The play by play of the championship game keeps the reader on edge of their seat until the final out is made. It's a great book that teaches great life lessons while making it fun with some baseball action. I highly suggest if you are a baseball fan, or just anyone, to read 'Heat!'

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 15, 2008

    Heat

    Imagine having to lie about everything well that's what life is like for Michael the main character in the book Heat by Mike Lupica.This book is about a 12 year old boy who wants to be a famous baseball player but he has to lie to his little league coach that his dad is still on a buiness trip and cant sign the permission slip but his dad is dead.My favorite part is when Michael looks around the baseball field at a game and he noticed a girl, she was laughing.Michael thought she was laughing at him so he went over there but she took off running.This is my favorite part because Michael thought she was laughing at him and she was but he did not know that.I recommend that kids 11 and older read this book because it is long, romanic and sad, with a little bit of action.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 4, 2012

    Girl

    Hi

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2012

    BOOBIE

    I LOVE SUCKING BOOBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Posted January 10, 2012

    Heat by Mike Lupica

    Heat
    Do you like baseball or have ever played it? Then Heat by Mike Lupica is a book for you to read. This exciting book tells the story about a 14 year old boy and his love for the game baseball. Everyone knows that Michael has an amazing arm and is the star pitcher for their Little League team. When he stops a nearby crime with a baseball, he finds himself in trouble and involved with the CSA. As they find out more about Michael and his baseball career, nobody knows Michael’s real age and start questioning if he’s even able to play in the league anymore. But since his father died with the birth certificate, no body can prove how old he really is. He isn’t allowed to play until they have proof. Will Michael play in the championship when his team will need him the most?

    I rate this book a 3 of out 5 because it is a good book and it uses okay vocabulary

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2012

    :I

    I'm 11 years old and I've read numerous Mike Lupica books (Travel Team, Hot Hand, Mirracle on 34th Street, etc) those are just some of them i have read. Heat didn't have as much adventure. Sorry 2 say, this is my only book by mike lupica that i was not very imprssed

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2011

    Hhhghhheeeeeeaaaaaaatttttttttt

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  • Posted October 14, 2011

    ?

    When i first say the cover i thought "thats one strong skinmy kid." At first it looked like a really thin kid carring a not so skinny baby on piggy back.

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  • Posted September 30, 2011

    Fggghfdrcdyfcgc vf dx me

    Shoulf i get it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 3, 2011

    Really awsome book i dont like baseball and this book was still awsome

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 2, 2011

    Amazing!

    I love all Mike Lupicas Books! Read them all!

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  • Posted August 30, 2011

    Love it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 25, 2011

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  • Posted August 25, 2011

    Mikes got style

    I thought this book was excellent Id reccommend it to any reader ages 9-13

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  • Posted August 1, 2011

    Something For Kids

    This book is actually interesting , its somethhing that i really enjoy anybody should get this !(:

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2011

    Good story

    It is a good book lots of action I reccomend this book

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  • Posted June 20, 2011

    Confused

    I read the sample. I thought it was talking about a fast runner who was 16 not a 12 year old pitcher.

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