The Aurora County All-Stars
by By Wiles, Deborah
Category: Juvenile Fiction , Social Themes , Adolescence & Coming of Age

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&#39;s finally ready to play, but wouldn&#39;t you know that the team&#39;s only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town&#39;s 200th-anniversary pageant. Now House must face the pageant&#39;s director, full-of-herself Frances Shotz (his nemesis and perpetrator of the elbow break), and get his team out of this mess. There&#39;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.