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 Hes finally ready to play but wouldnt you know that the teams only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the townsnbspth-anniversary pageant Now House must face the pageants director full-of-herself Frances Shotz his nemesis and perpetrator of the elbow break and get his team out of this mess Theres 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 Whitmannbspnbspnbspnbsp Through the long hot month of June House makes surprising and valuable discoveries about family friendship poetry and baseball.
