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Wiles, Deborah.

The Aurora County All-Stars / - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, c2007. - 242 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled 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.

Ages 10 and up.

A Junior Library Guild selection

ISBN: 0152060685 (hardcover) : $16.00 9780152060688 (hardcover) : $16.00

Source: Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

LCCN: 2006102551

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Baseball--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Pageants--Fiction.
Sexism--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Baseball--Juvenile fiction.
Death--Juvenile fiction.
Pageants--Juvenile fiction.
Sexism--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mississippi--Fiction.
Mississippi--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.W6474 / Aur 2007

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]