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Clarion Books, 2009-01-03

Aurora County All-Stars

Aurora County All-Stars

Deborah Wiles, Author

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9780152066260

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Twelve-year-old House Jackson, star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars, has been sidelined for a year with a broken elbow. Now that he's healed, the biggest game of the season is set for the same day as the pageant for the county's 200th anniversary. What's House to do?
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Keywords and Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Boys & Men • General • Historical • Humorous Stories • JUV005000 • JUV016000 • JUV019000 • JUV039020 • JUV039120 • JUV039270 • JUV057000 • JUV070000 • Juvenile Fiction • Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) • Prejudice & Racism • Social Themes • Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) • Strangers

Age Range • 10-13

Pages • 256

Subjects • Baseball • Death • Pageants • Sexism • Race relations • Mississippi

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age • Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men • Juvenile Fiction | Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) • Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism • Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Strangers

Twelve-year-old House Jackson--star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars--has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow. He's finally ready to play, but wouldn't you know that the team's only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town's 200th-anniversary pageant. Now House must face the pageant's director, full-of-herself Frances Shotz (his nemesis and perpetrator of the elbow break), and get his team out of this mess. There's also the matter of a mysterious old recluse who has died and left House a wheezy old dog named Eudora Welty--and a puzzling book of poetry by someone named Walt Whitman.

Through the long, hot month of June, House makes surprising and valuable discoveries about family, friendship, poetry . . . and baseball.

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