This book is about the story of Julie Albright. She just moved to this new town and has her mind set that she will play basketball. However, the town is so small there is only a boy basketball team that she is "not allowed" to play for. Jule goes on this journey to get 150 to sign a petition to let her play with the boys.Through this process she finds some good friends along the way in her new town. The main message of this book is to covey that if you really put your mind to something, you can make it happen. It also showed readers that if you put yourself out there a little bit in new situations or places, you can meet some really good people. This was shown through the key details about Julies journey to get 150 names on her petition. ( )