Aurora County All-Stars

What's more important than baseball?

The Washington Post - Elizabeth Ward

There's much to savor: bubbly prose…a dog named Eudora Welty and a kid named Parting Schotz…lots of baseball lore; and a cliffhanger of an all-star game that brings the whole town together. As one character sighs, "It's positively Thornton Wilder." But it's Thornton Wilder on a sugar high—and that's some high.

DEBORAH WILES is a first-time novelist. She has worked as a journalist and a radio commentator, and she teaches writing and oral history workshops for children. She lives in Maryland.