The Aurora County All-Stars
By: Deborah Wiles
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780152060688
Subjects: Race relations; Death; Juvenile fiction; Sexism; Fiction; Baseball; Children's stories; Pageants; Baseball stories
Description: For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be canceled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
Notes: Ages 10 and up.

A Junior Library Guild selection