Title: Champeen : a novel /
Authors: Miller, Heather Ross, 1939-
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Mothers and daughters Fiction
Abstract: A novel on an ambitious fire-baton twirler in 1940s North Carolina. She is the daughter of a failed baseball player and a failed pianist and she is determined to succeed in her art. A paratrooper back from the wars makes her a baton and she wins a county competition.