Wiles, Deborah.
The Aurora County All-Stars / Deborah Wiles. - 1st ed. - Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007. - xiv, 242 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal, October 2007 Horn Book Starred, April 2008 Pub Weekly, July 2007 Kirkus Starred, July 2007 Booklist, September 2007 Horn Book, September 2007 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2007
Twelve-year-old House Jackson, team captain and star pitcher of the Aurora County All-Stars, is finally ready to play again after being sidelined for a year with a broken elbow, but a standoff ensues when the team's big game is scheduled for the same day as Aurora County's two-hundredth anniversary pageant--an event directed by the very girl who caused Jackson's injury.
5.6 3-6 Follett Library Resources
0152060685
2006102551
Baseball--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Pageants--Fiction.
Sexism--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction.
PZ7.W6474 / Aur 2007
[Fic]
The Aurora County All-Stars / Deborah Wiles. - 1st ed. - Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007. - xiv, 242 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal, October 2007 Horn Book Starred, April 2008 Pub Weekly, July 2007 Kirkus Starred, July 2007 Booklist, September 2007 Horn Book, September 2007 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2007
Twelve-year-old House Jackson, team captain and star pitcher of the Aurora County All-Stars, is finally ready to play again after being sidelined for a year with a broken elbow, but a standoff ensues when the team's big game is scheduled for the same day as Aurora County's two-hundredth anniversary pageant--an event directed by the very girl who caused Jackson's injury.
5.6 3-6 Follett Library Resources
0152060685
2006102551
Baseball--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Pageants--Fiction.
Sexism--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction.
PZ7.W6474 / Aur 2007
[Fic]