The Aurora County All-Stars

By Deborah Wiles

Subjects: Baseball, fiction, Performing arts, fiction, Baseball stories, Death, Race relations, fiction, Pageants, Children's stories, Death, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Sexism, Juvenile fiction, Sex role, fiction, Race relations, Mississippi, fiction, Baseball

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.